torching earth, giant marshmallow
is this truly appetizing, the fires lit,
water rising
penguins sweating on icebergs armadaed
polar bears migrating into history's cold oblivion
air stifling
ground arid
the bones of technology littering a skeletal land
subdued descendants descending
lasting into simplicity
never to play with matches ever again
sated with the bones of our ignorant ledger
an accounting gone awry
as the skyscrapers tumble
crops wither
markets close
our seeds scatter
this is where we are
torching the castle never worked
revolution isn't learned from
histories eroded of any meaning by anyone
fictions spread by the billions
into fact
truths of comfort
of denial
of fear of the sudden
realization of the end of everything
a barbeque of tradition
for the sake of continuance
contreivance
pariahs in the face of a staggering reality
pi in the sky
fish-hooks in the air
total abyss of knowing
our Bolshoi and our Dada unkempt,
hair of Man ratted and torn asunder
by the proximity of the horror
our own pitiful and cruel miniscule
awareness, our need