WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.140 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.140 --> 00:00:07.910 align:middle line:84% This has more international setting, different kind of war, 00:00:07.910 --> 00:00:09.820 align:middle line:90% "The General's Briefing." 00:00:09.820 --> 00:00:13.120 align:middle line:84% This is a list until the very end, anyway, it's a list. 00:00:13.120 --> 00:00:17.040 align:middle line:90% "The General's Briefing." 00:00:17.040 --> 00:00:19.290 align:middle line:84% "Here's the infant formula plant, 00:00:19.290 --> 00:00:22.680 align:middle line:90% missed by a hair's breath. 00:00:22.680 --> 00:00:25.700 align:middle line:84% Next to it, here's the biological research facility 00:00:25.700 --> 00:00:29.970 align:middle line:84% bombed with advanced machinery of pinpoint accuracy. 00:00:29.970 --> 00:00:32.910 align:middle line:84% Here are the small women and large babies, 00:00:32.910 --> 00:00:36.520 align:middle line:84% the medium sized women with tiny children, 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:40.270 align:middle line:84% and the large, the tall women with shrinking babies. 00:00:40.270 --> 00:00:42.310 align:middle line:84% And here are the former apartments, 00:00:42.310 --> 00:00:44.500 align:middle line:90% and the former neighborhoods. 00:00:44.500 --> 00:00:47.920 align:middle line:84% And here's the dirty, famous, polluted, well-known, 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:50.950 align:middle line:84% historically besieged, important river 00:00:50.950 --> 00:00:55.930 align:middle line:84% that ran the commerce, throbbing in the belly of the city. 00:00:55.930 --> 00:00:58.510 align:middle line:84% Here are the candlesticks of the mosque. 00:00:58.510 --> 00:01:01.480 align:middle line:84% Here are the pre-dawn musicians, here's dawn. 00:01:01.480 --> 00:01:03.190 align:middle line:90% Here's the all clear. 00:01:03.190 --> 00:01:07.180 align:middle line:84% Here are the radio waves, the telecommunications antennae. 00:01:07.180 --> 00:01:09.260 align:middle line:90% Here are the rats. 00:01:09.260 --> 00:01:10.340 align:middle line:90% Here's the dysentery. 00:01:10.340 --> 00:01:11.900 align:middle line:90% Here's the one doctor. 00:01:11.900 --> 00:01:15.150 align:middle line:84% Here's the vial of medicine for the population. 00:01:15.150 --> 00:01:18.230 align:middle line:84% Here's the international community to rebuild the city. 00:01:18.230 --> 00:01:23.480 align:middle line:84% Here finally, is the city, the dry faucet, the endless alloy 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:27.020 align:middle line:84% pipe, the rose plume, over the scarlet plume, 00:01:27.020 --> 00:01:32.490 align:middle line:84% over the yellow plume, over the charcoal, over the flames. 00:01:32.490 --> 00:01:34.350 align:middle line:90% Here's the eyewitness. 00:01:34.350 --> 00:01:36.480 align:middle line:84% Here are his notes, his swollen pad, 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:39.150 align:middle line:84% here's his tooth-marked lead pencil, his press pass, 00:01:39.150 --> 00:01:40.050 align:middle line:90% his signature. 00:01:40.050 --> 00:01:42.040 align:middle line:84% Here are the letters of his whole name. 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:45.240 align:middle line:84% Here are the vowels separating from the rest, the tender 00:01:45.240 --> 00:01:49.140 align:middle line:84% e, the demanding u, the sorry o, and the a 00:01:49.140 --> 00:01:52.470 align:middle line:84% and i suddenly very close, intimate in fact, 00:01:52.470 --> 00:01:56.070 align:middle line:84% given the circumstances of no air, no water, no electricity, 00:01:56.070 --> 00:02:01.960 align:middle line:84% no society, no geography, no say, no information, no. 00:02:01.960 --> 00:02:05.110 align:middle line:84% Here's the audience, the couch, soil, the telephone 00:02:05.110 --> 00:02:08.080 align:middle line:84% wire to the living room, the Super Bowl on TV, 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:10.600 align:middle line:84% the background of epic winter sky, 00:02:10.600 --> 00:02:14.140 align:middle line:84% the letters recycled, practice jets, the speed of sound, 00:02:14.140 --> 00:02:16.900 align:middle line:84% the traffic, Sunday shoppers with their imported 00:02:16.900 --> 00:02:19.900 align:middle line:84% and domestic cars tuned to the war, 00:02:19.900 --> 00:02:22.840 align:middle line:84% the clerk at Circle K tuned to the war, 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:25.420 align:middle line:84% the anti-war demonstrators with their headsets 00:02:25.420 --> 00:02:28.150 align:middle line:84% tuned to the war, the Super Bowl commentators, 00:02:28.150 --> 00:02:31.750 align:middle line:84% making an exorbitant fee, tuned to the war, the police guarding 00:02:31.750 --> 00:02:35.290 align:middle line:84% the stadium, the FBI rooting out possible terrorists, 00:02:35.290 --> 00:02:38.530 align:middle line:84% the boys growing mustaches to be terrorists, 00:02:38.530 --> 00:02:41.920 align:middle line:84% the terrorists feeling death's high. 00:02:41.920 --> 00:02:44.380 align:middle line:84% Here's the answer, here's the Pope, the minister, 00:02:44.380 --> 00:02:46.690 align:middle line:84% the president, the representative of the people. 00:02:46.690 --> 00:02:48.580 align:middle line:84% Here's the student, the official. 00:02:48.580 --> 00:02:49.700 align:middle line:90% Here's the quarterback. 00:02:49.700 --> 00:02:52.120 align:middle line:90% Here's the servant, here, here. 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:57.220 align:middle line:84% Monday night, don't you see us on the shelled road out of gas, 00:02:57.220 --> 00:03:00.280 align:middle line:84% without our masks, money, without our credentials? 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:04.270 align:middle line:84% We sense you, your eye in the high tech telescope as one 00:03:04.270 --> 00:03:06.790 align:middle line:84% throws back her stringy hair from his forehead, 00:03:06.790 --> 00:03:09.430 align:middle line:84% and another rubs her throat waking it. 00:03:09.430 --> 00:03:11.830 align:middle line:84% The only thing missing from your screen, 00:03:11.830 --> 00:03:15.220 align:middle line:84% your vision, out of earshot, the smell 00:03:15.220 --> 00:03:19.570 align:middle line:84% of so-called immortal souls, immortal Earth, 00:03:19.570 --> 00:03:24.010 align:middle line:84% fruit ripe and ready for market, baths ended abruptly weeks ago, 00:03:24.010 --> 00:03:26.150 align:middle line:90% the last of the drinking water. 00:03:26.150 --> 00:03:29.020 align:middle line:84% The only thing missing from your enormous awareness 00:03:29.020 --> 00:03:33.100 align:middle line:84% on the screen, the smell, as when one meets the great love 00:03:33.100 --> 00:03:35.860 align:middle line:84% of his life, the same yellow hair she imagined, 00:03:35.860 --> 00:03:40.520 align:middle line:84% the very same speech, same touch, and cannot, 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:43.760 align:middle line:84% the same upturned lips, and cannot. 00:03:43.760 --> 00:03:49.310 align:middle line:84% The smell, as one hears her child and cannot. 00:03:49.310 --> 00:03:53.600 align:middle line:84% The smell, who has slept all night, the sheets cold and wet? 00:03:53.600 --> 00:03:57.110 align:middle line:84% The smell, silence, suddenly electronic 00:03:57.110 --> 00:03:59.150 align:middle line:84% professional governmental silence. 00:03:59.150 --> 00:04:02.960 align:middle line:84% The smell, whitewashed walls on all sides infinite. 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:06.140 align:middle line:84% The smell, desert trenches, a face, a leg. 00:04:06.140 --> 00:04:11.450 align:middle line:84% The smell, red hills, anxiety, our heads held up on sticks. 00:04:11.450 --> 00:04:14.120 align:middle line:84% As I speak from a third floor room, 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:17.420 align:middle line:84% the smell throughout the city, the country the region, 00:04:17.420 --> 00:04:21.350 align:middle line:84% diarrhea, and puke, and mineral dry heave. 00:04:21.350 --> 00:04:24.080 align:middle line:84% No salt for tears, no sea for sewage." 00:04:24.080 --> 00:04:27.680 align:middle line:90% 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:31.030 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:04:31.030 --> 00:04:36.324 align:middle line:90%