aayoungwe are minerals
and death
sinewy tongued
carbon based
monstrosities of chemistry
capable of love
hate
warheads
television and
entropy
hubris enough to murder a planet
and want more leg room on airplanes
we would find a way
to kill the stars
if they weren’t dead
already
as the ocean reclaims the land
and our comfort level with it
we will realize in a collective gasp
we have squandered
centuries of invention, blood, and privilege
with human conceit
.
we have wasted every memory
every idea
every love
by failing the planet
.
we have forgotten to call our mothers
as we were killing each other
over
unknowables
and inflexible
fallible
beliefs
.
don’t go crying to science
science tried to tell us long ago
.
so eat your nachos
and barbecued chemistry lab meats
cheer on your gladiator teams
as they bash their skulls together in a coliseum
enjoy the halftime performers as they twerk and bleat
live stream a diversion
drink your wine and craft beer from sustainable bottles
.
insert artisanal tampons made from the wool of
vegetarian fed sheep
.
file your taxes
.
don’t you look pretty
with thicker, fuller lashes
drop your child off anywhere
so long as you don’t hear their screams
.
pay for neon sex
on the latest smartphone
with that one last good credit card
.
swipe the strip or insert the chip
but do it hard,
consumer culture,
more, baby, more
.
a civilization
blindfolded in agreement
and a few syphilitic mosquitoes
is all the next
mass extinction needs
.
everything
ceases to be
as sure as
night spreads
from beneath
old trees
it is too much to ask of existence
for it to have meaning
we greedy humans
perpetually asking why
as if we deserve an explanation
drawn to illuminating answers
like moths to flame
yet the moth knows
antennae to wing tip
there is nothing to know
but the euphoria found within
temporary light
the only logical explanation
to my query rests somewhere
within evolution
.
how to explain the behaviors
of my youth
.
single celled amoeba
causation
division into
organ systems
due to
lightning striking
mossy rocks
primordial chemistry
.
pangea with a side of tea
.
to become an eel
shark
murky creature swimming
with unforgiving teeth
.
finally to manifest
a mermaid
my beautiful
mother’s daughter
certainly
willing pirates lured
by my siren song
plucking their heart strings
until boredom set in
only to drown them
in the sea
.
it explains
my enduring love
for fishnet stockings
just before an
old bulb blows out
it glows most brightly
.
in times of struggle
people turn to what numbs them
.
vices thrive
drinking, drugs, gambling, prostitution, and religion
.
as a humanist
who holds sacred
loyalty
and a fine debauch
what a marvelous time to be alive
and collectively
saying
what the fuck
.
i’m ready to pop the cork
on that bottle we’ve been saving
and have apocalypse sex
never fall in love
with a frenchman
who looks like
a handsome lumberjack
but always listen
to his opinions
about literature
paris is burning
haiti is dead
new orleans is under water
my marie laveau paper dolls
are casting voo doo spells
upon the living
and
i have so much to read
before the world ends
as snowbirds go south
i chart the weather
there is a flesh eating bacteria
in the overly warm
petrie dish waters
surrounding florida
vibrio vilifinicus
which in latin means
“horse dick with teeth”
the mosquitoes there
are registered sex offenders
with a record in the west nile
because of this
denizens of the sunshine state
must sit in screened cages in the evening
they so delicately refer to as a
lanai
the hawaiian word for
“screened in porch on swamp shack”
big sugar and their lobbyists
are balls deep up seminole ass
shoreline decreasing by the year
oranges juice is undergoing genocide
bees are dying
legs blown off
in the rice paddies of hanoi
alligators are more confused than chaz bono
soon all that will be left
of the penis
of these great united states
is disney world island
where everything is perfect
for a price
magic fucking kingdom
indeed
if only
the human race
could find a way
to convert an engine
to run on pettiness
and depravity
we could buy enough time
to terra form
colonize
and destroy
the planet mars
so that earth
doesn’t have to die alone