Marie Howe : "The Singularity"

Marie Howe at TED Salon: Belonging  (transcript)
"The Singularity"
Summary
By chance, l found this poem and l thought that it wouldn't be using difficult English, though, it’s not easy to understand about poems, so poems are in the first place, difficult to understand because we have to know about words' meaning, characters, backgrounds, and even culture widely and deeply. When I saw the title, I've completely forgotten about Hawking singularity theorems. I thought about being single more than The Singularity, so the poem doesn’t show about happy things.

In the past, he, Stephen Hawking told us that we who lived on the Earth were the only civilization within a hundred light years though civilizations wouldn’t last very long. They destroy themselves. Them means, you know, us.

Even we don’t know difficult theorems, we can know about our daily actions against our earth. We must think about the whole Universe. It would be wrong thinking about living on other planets because we couldn’t live on earth.

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