On Reading
COLLAPSE
by Jared Diamond
It is disquieting
like watching one
large accident
about to happen
with most every body
looking way away
far too willfully
blind
too caught up
busy in our billions
burying noses
in some million dollar
owner’s business
sticking the Earth
“our faire sister
in the side of the
dawn”
with fences
symbolic markers
around
“a vast accumulation
of commodities”
which make up our
wealth
especially our current
Nature
Amen
“Well
it doesn’t affect
my children
or
my S.O.s!
Just leave me mate
the hell alone!”
And the Disquiet
worms its way
into our computed days
Somehow we know
in some fashion sense
sleep loss
weight gain
collapse
migraine
fear of our childrens’
tears
But
we’ve always done our
work this way
just as we do it now
We sit upon an eve
and think
that we will never
ever fall
I give us fifty years
old mate
give or take a few
We’ll slowly boil like
lobsters
one by one
then two by two
while unbeknownst to
all of us
we’ll turn a deep red
hue
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