Tuesday, December 4, 2018
COMING
the odor of death
hangs heavy over the planet
the corpses of angels
strewn at our feet
and it's coming
the people were told
by the high priests
of climate change
but they paid no heed
till it started to rain
(say what you will about Noah--
he had strong animal magnetism)
what to do now:
rob the liquor store
do a lap or two
around the lap dancer
circumnavigate the moon
swing on a comet's tail
eat in the kitchen
crap in the loo
the creatures marched in
two by two
look out Flahr-Da
there's more soup for you
take a Greyhound to Memphis
do a thing with The King
drink your whiskey straight
masturbate
(as you can see
it doesn't matter to me)
'cause it's coming
the odor of death
hangs over the planet
you can see it in the skies
and in the children's eyes
but what we will carry:
the scent of earth
and twigs
and pine
we'll always remember you
Mother
just as you are
as we gaze wistfully upon you
from some other star
and we are coming
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You cracked me up with this:
ReplyDelete"say what you will about Noah--
he had strong animal magnetism"
I know you're trying to be grim, but this made me smile, throughout.
Today, I choose this ---
"... and in the children's eyes
but what we will carry:
the scent of earth
and twigs
and pine"
If we're going out, let's have some fun.
And who knows? Maybe the world is more mystical than we realize. What if the condition if the earth has a direct correlation to our hearts? What if all we have to do to heal the earth is heal our own hearts? And what better way to do it than by playing in the forest as/with (our) children?
Thanks so much for your comment, Silver! You've caught on to me-- there's always a bit of humor when I'm being grim, and a touch of grim when I'm being humorous. As that's the way life is, eh? And there's a lot of truth in your last paragraph! The world is us and we are the world. Hmmm...that was a song, wasn't it?
DeleteGuess you had it cumin … smiles and meows, friend Tim … Love, cat.
ReplyDeleteHa ha...looks like we've all got it coming now!
DeletePowerfully chilling and timely. We certainly do seem to be living in the beginning of the end.
ReplyDeleteI've given a pessimistic view, to be sure, but I've heard it said that pessimists are the true realists.
DeleteDavid Attenborough seems to think the end is nigh.So what to do?
ReplyDeleteapart from leaving a tiny carbon imprint...keep banging the drum...Perhaps smile, listen to Al Green ...think and write warms thoughts sending them out into the ether.It all means something.Holiday wishes.
All good choices! All best for the holidays! I won't tell Santa on you--lol)
DeleteSadly we reap what we sew...We've trashed the planet..God spare the star where humans congregate.
ReplyDeleteRight? Wonder how long it will take us to trash that one.
DeleteLet's hope we make it Timoteo, because we are currently making a fuckin' mess of spaceship earth. And I think, mixed in with that odor of death, is the rising reek of Trump-zilla's gawdawful bullshit... I liked this piece a lot!
ReplyDeleteExactly...not only is he stinking up the joint, but with the weakening of environmental regulations and climate change denial, he is hastening our collective demise. Not that he cares...he'll be gone. Come to think of it, most of the rest of us will be too. Oh well...party time!!!
DeleteIt is strange isn't that so many of us can see that disasterous times are coming but governments, industry and entrepreneurs are completly blind all they can see are profits, property and bank balances and all this nonsense is still years away!
ReplyDeleteI think they pretend not to know what's going on, because it is in their self-interest to deny all of it, like the tobacco company executives who stood before congress and to a man they stated they did not believe smoking cigarettes causes cancer. Anyhoo, happy holidays to you!
ReplyDeleteI think the question becomes how many foretold ends of the world we've survived. I don't see how any baby-boomer can take any doomsday prediction seriously by now. A lot of us expected the world to be iced over or blown up or both by 1980. That some "climate change" warnings have already been disproved doesn't help.
ReplyDeleteI know people aren't highly motivated by the simple truth that cities are hotter than their suburbs and in summer, in some cities, people die as a result. Until you're ready to be the next victim of your city's Code Red Days you probably go on thinking "Well, if the city's too hot for me I can drive out to the suburbs." Sigh.
A thing I'd actually like to see young people try? "Walking is young/hot/sexy. People who HAVE TO drive are old'n'pitiful."
If anything will stop my generation killing our juniors in traffic, that'll be it.
I think the question becomes how many foretold ends of the world we've survived. I don't see how any baby-boomer can take any doomsday prediction seriously by now. A lot of us expected the world to be iced over or blown up or both by 1980. That some "climate change" warnings have already been disproved doesn't help.
ReplyDeleteI know people aren't highly motivated by the simple truth that cities are hotter than their suburbs and in summer, in some cities, people die as a result. Until you're ready to be the next victim of your city's Code Red Days you probably go on thinking "Well, if the city's too hot for me I can drive out to the suburbs." Sigh.
A thing I'd actually like to see young people try? "Walking is young/hot/sexy. People who HAVE TO drive are old'n'pitiful."
If anything will stop my generation killing our juniors in traffic, that'll be it.