WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.140 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.140 --> 00:00:02.880 align:middle line:84% So in addition to the Big Bang, I also 00:00:02.880 --> 00:00:05.880 align:middle line:84% like to think about the end of the world, which 00:00:05.880 --> 00:00:08.070 align:middle line:84% I think is scheduled for a couple of weeks from now. 00:00:08.070 --> 00:00:09.720 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:11.880 align:middle line:90% Just put it on your calendar. 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:14.790 align:middle line:84% So I titled this poem, this is-- kind of considering that 00:00:14.790 --> 00:00:17.670 align:middle line:84% and I titled this, "After the Last Mass Extinction 00:00:17.670 --> 00:00:22.430 align:middle line:90% on the Planet, The Great Dying." 00:00:22.430 --> 00:00:24.440 align:middle line:90% This is what happens. 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:26.360 align:middle line:90% The sky provides. 00:00:26.360 --> 00:00:28.220 align:middle line:90% The ground opens. 00:00:28.220 --> 00:00:31.430 align:middle line:90% One day swallows a man entire. 00:00:31.430 --> 00:00:32.990 align:middle line:90% The smoke lifts. 00:00:32.990 --> 00:00:35.930 align:middle line:84% The citizens gathering on the hilltop. 00:00:35.930 --> 00:00:38.990 align:middle line:90% The citizens consume the scene. 00:00:38.990 --> 00:00:41.120 align:middle line:90% A nation cheers. 00:00:41.120 --> 00:00:42.770 align:middle line:90% A nation mourns. 00:00:42.770 --> 00:00:45.140 align:middle line:90% This is what happens. 00:00:45.140 --> 00:00:47.330 align:middle line:90% A woman hangs her head. 00:00:47.330 --> 00:00:52.760 align:middle line:84% A good citizen, an exhibition, a woman moving in the wrong body. 00:00:52.760 --> 00:00:54.380 align:middle line:90% Quick combustion. 00:00:54.380 --> 00:00:56.960 align:middle line:84% Each voice armed and at the ready. 00:00:56.960 --> 00:01:01.490 align:middle line:84% Each heart moving, just keeping on like a muscle. 00:01:01.490 --> 00:01:03.080 align:middle line:90% What is a country? 00:01:03.080 --> 00:01:05.640 align:middle line:90% What category of disaster. 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:07.220 align:middle line:90% This is what happens. 00:01:07.220 --> 00:01:10.910 align:middle line:84% The sky will reimagine tumult just is. 00:01:10.910 --> 00:01:12.320 align:middle line:90% It is the end. 00:01:12.320 --> 00:01:13.850 align:middle line:90% We seek shelter. 00:01:13.850 --> 00:01:15.710 align:middle line:90% We are good citizens. 00:01:15.710 --> 00:01:18.560 align:middle line:90% We shut up our eyes for so long. 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:20.270 align:middle line:90% We wait and wait. 00:01:20.270 --> 00:01:22.010 align:middle line:90% The room grows smaller. 00:01:22.010 --> 00:01:25.670 align:middle line:90% The sea rises up to meet us. 00:01:25.670 --> 00:01:26.170 align:middle line:90%