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So in addition to
the Big Bang, I also

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like to think about the
end of the world, which

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I think is scheduled for a
couple of weeks from now.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Just put it on your calendar.

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So I titled this poem, this
is-- kind of considering that

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and I titled this, "After
the Last Mass Extinction

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on the Planet, The Great Dying."

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This is what happens.

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The sky provides.

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The ground opens.

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One day swallows a man entire.

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The smoke lifts.

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The citizens gathering
on the hilltop.

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The citizens consume the scene.

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A nation cheers.

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A nation mourns.

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This is what happens.

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A woman hangs her head.

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A good citizen, an exhibition, a
woman moving in the wrong body.

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Quick combustion.

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Each voice armed
and at the ready.

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Each heart moving, just
keeping on like a muscle.

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What is a country?

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What category of disaster.

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This is what happens.

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The sky will reimagine
tumult just is.

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It is the end.

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We seek shelter.

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We are good citizens.

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We shut up our eyes for so long.

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We wait and wait.

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The room grows smaller.

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The sea rises up to meet us.

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