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TEDx Talks
Published: 2017-09-07
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17bU94OYyxQ
a history of everything including you first there was god or gods or nothing then synthesis space the expanse Splosion this implosion it's particles objects combustion and fusion out of the chaos came order stars were born and shown and diet planets rolled across the their galaxies on invisible ellipses and the elements combined in became life evolved or was created cells trembled and divided in gas and found
dry land soon they grew legs fans and hands an antenna and mouths in ears and wings highs eyes that open wide to take all of that in creeping growing soaring swimming crawling stampeding universe eyes opened and closed and opened again we called it linking above us shown a star that we called the sun and we called the great so we named everything excluding ourselves we were
man and woman and when we got only a way to make Martha we call that sat and most people enjoy that we fell in love we talked about god in bank stones together made sparks and called them fire we got warmer it got better we got married they cry I ate and crawled in grew one dissect Lauer sometimes eating the petals another like to I fought
wars over money and honor and women we stopped ourselves hired prostitutes WNED terrified the rain and it became S. one of us breathing blue first Emma sleeves then we buried from we remember them forgot them we aged our buildings kept getting taller we hired lawyers informed councils and left paper trails we negotiated we admit it we got sick and search for carers we invented lipstick vaccines
Palade use solar panels interventions table manners firearms window treatments therapy birth control tailgating status symbols palimony sportsmanship focus groups Zoloft sun screen landscaping Cessna's fortune cookies chemotherapy convenience foods computers we angered militants and our mothers you were born or you learn to walk and went to school and played sports and lost your virginity got into a decent college and majored in psychology and went to rock
shows political change your major to marketing and were turtleneck sweaters and read novels and volunteered and went to movies developed a taste for blue cheese dressing I met you through friends and didn't like you at first the feeling was mutual but we got used to each other we had sex for the first time behind an art gallery standing up and slightly drunk all you held my
face in your hands and you said that I was beautiful and you were to tall with street light behind you we went back to your place and listen to the white album we ordered and we fought and made up and got good jobs and got married and bought an apartment and worked out an eight more and talk less I got to press you ignored me I
was sick via you drank too much and got careless with money I slept with my boss we went into counseling and got a dog I bought a book of sex positions and we tried the least degrading one the wheelbarrow he took flight lessons and subscribe to Rolling Stone I learned Spanish and started gardening we had some children who more or less disappointed us but it might
have been our faults you were to indulge in a critical we love them anyway one of them died before we did stopped on the subway we grieved we moved we adopted a cat the world seemed uncertain we lived beyond our means I got judgmental and belligerent you got confused didn't easily tired you ignored me I was sick of you we forget it we remembered we make
cocktails we got tender there was that time on the porch when you said can you believe it this was near the end in your hands were trembling I think you were talking about everything including us you want me to say it so that it would not be lost it was too much for me to think about I could not go back to the beginning I said
not really and we watched the sun go down the dog kept barking in the distance and you were tired but you smiled and you said here that it's Ross Ross and we laughed you were like that now your question is my project in our houses full of clues I'm reading old letters and turning over rocks I bury my face in your sweaters I study of photographs
taken at the beach the sun in our eyes and the water behind us it's a victory to remember the forgotten basket and your striped beach blanket the victory to remember how the jellyfish stung you and you ran screaming from the water it's Victor victory it's remember dressing the wound with meat tenderizer and you saying I made it better I will tell you this standing on our
