my son believes

    the earth
    will cleanse itself
    and beyond us all
    what will remain

    will be scorpions
    roaches and
    styrofoam

    and the scorpions
    will run things
    and the roaches
    will be the
    rebels

    and eventually
    the styrofoam
    will attain
    life

    and that'll be
    the beginning
    of the end
    for the scorpions
    and the roaches

    so my kid
    tells me
    over a bowl
    of miso

    sometimes
    I think we are
    not so far
    apart
      Michael McNeilley
      © 1997


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