Poem Zero


maybe the ones who have left
us early by the malice of their own
hand knew what matters most:
procreation; the evolution of
planetary life amply illuminated, steeled
to survive in our natal fount or
with mastery of the universe poised
at the precipice of infinitude.

the greatest of these is escape
abandonment of the world one
has been born to 
and from.

because: 
carbon
 avarice
 religion
atheism
swarm behavior
there is no heaven

for:
practice makes perfect
preppers will kill you
one good turn deserves another
dust to dust
white sky
mystery
tribes

due to:
8 billion humans
5 billion years
smokey the bear
ember orange horizon
super volcano
chicxulub

since:
science
orbital decay
copernicus-gallilei-keppler-newton
rutherford-bohr-einstein
fermi-oppenheimer-hawking
"war is hell"
"mars needs women"
 
as:
reality trumps fantasy
euphoria is temporary
mortality is enough
i'm writing a poem that no one will read
i'm writing an ur-poem
poetry has never existed  

because I'm writing a poem.


©2015 by Michael Jones

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