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IN SEVERAL MILLION YEARS WE’LL ALL BE GONE
WE’LL ALL BE GONE MUCH SOONER THAN THAT BUT WE’LL STILL BE GONE THEN
THE PLANET WILL HEAT UP LIKE A BULB AND WE’LL ALL SHIVER AND RIPPLE INTO PIECES AND EARTH WILL BURN CLEAN
THINGS WILL BE QUIET FOR A LONG WHILE AFTERWARD
EARTH BEING EARTH, QUIETLY AND TO ITSELF
THE OCEANS ROLLING SALT WATER ON TO SAND, ROCKS BUSY BEING ROCKS
WINDS
WATER WILL HAVE BEEN EXCITED BY ALL THE HEAT BUT IT’LL SETTLE, EVENTUALLY, INTO ITS OLD RHYTHMS
AND IF BACTERIA SURVIVE, ONE DAY THERE WILL BE THROATS AGAIN
(OR SOME SOUND PRODUCING ORGANS ANYWAY)
THERE WILL BE SOUNDS AND SEX ON PLANET EARTH, VARIATIONS ON A THEME
BUT WHEN WE ARE GONE, I WANT TO KNOW, WILL WE TAKE SADNESS WITH US? CURIOSITY?
WE THINK OF EMOTIONS AS INNATE, BUT REALLY THEY ARE A PRODUCT OF OUR BIOLOGY
WILL “FEAR” MELT AWAY WITH US
WHAT NEW FEELINGS WILL BE BORN IN THE PRISM OF NEW LIFE I WONDER
WHAT NEW SHAPE OF LOVE
Nope. Poetic but nope.
or we’ll run off and fuck somewhere else up.