we put off tht simple task until
all the protons in our phones decay
only to discover in the long dark of leptons tht
it is not tht hard to fold a couple of t-shirts
we put off those simple tasks while
blackholes evaporate like high school friends while
burger joints flirt w each other
on twitter while we stand in the wide field while
the universe expands like the wealth gap
until the sky is a frozen white screen
it’s tragic in an old greek way tht we were
born too old to find tom hanks attractive
too young to watch the universe die
we: the neutron star tht grew in the ruins of messageboards
standing firm at the picket lines
of orchestrated social media feuds
w pride charms hanging from video game assault rifles
whose escape dreams parrot the calls of van-life influencers
we put off simple tasks like writing poems
bc we are waiting for heat death of everything
but the truth is we don’t know how
this will end how
long this will keep going how
long can we put this off until it becomes a problem
we are stalling we
have stalled we will be late to work we
won’t make it to this dinner
we will stay in this bed until the planet
degenerates into ferrous dust
& I hope in the void a mote tht was once me
brushes past a particle tht was once u
Featured photo by Alejo Reinoso on Unsplash.
