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So something I think about
a lot is the Big Bang,

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just like casually.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And I was thinking
about that when

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I wrote this poem, about how
after the Big Bang everything

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was expanding, kind of
moving apart in that motion.

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And that's where this started.

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"Matter in Retreat."

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The stars drift away
from one another.

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Tonight, as every moment, you
and I breathing so thoughtless.

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A living, we make
as we are made to.

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As I make another
promise to myself

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to try to mean more
to you, to call out

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across a great distance.

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But I am not loud enough.

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I suspect I have not
enough protest in me.

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The arc of my throat awaits
a tenderness or brutality.

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And what are we to one another,
but a means to a meaning

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we haven't yet
discovered, two points

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of light on the inky dark sky,
two paper boats on a black lake

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floating further away.

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Every day I awake, I roll
over, I hide my head.

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We get smaller.

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Our living, it's pathetic.

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I mean, it makes you sad.

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