LEARNING TO DIE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
there’s a giddiness for some of us
at the end of the world
like a disintegrating Christmas
birthday for the dead
it’s been raining since 2018
you were too busy with everything being ok to notice
but I did
the best thing about the end of the world
is how cold it gets in April
and the lizards in legion
stuck everywhere just watching
some of us are glad and it’s a relief
the psychic weight of things had us frayed
we were nervous all the time
and never really present
it’s as quiet out there as my hometown now
and all my friends from High School are here
somewhere a despot roils in his greed
somewhere a feminist doesn’t even
somewhere my mom’s watching Trump
in a red hat making gravy
somewhere my Dad is cold and thin as plasma
(and probably smoking)
for us, the darklings, dispirited, never heard or
celebrated
the world ended already
and this winding down
and atrophy, it’s quiet finally without their pouting
theaters of strife and vanity
things are coming to rest
motes of the cosmos landing softly on the ledge
before they’re taken on the wind
and it all gets blown away.
Going for the Throat 
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