Coronal Mass Ejection

It'll all be over in about eight minutes,
Give or take, depending on your side of the Earth,
Plasma therapy for the masses.
Just like that, we're all crispy critters,
Pork rind skins flavored with dehydrated sea-salt.
That beautiful aurora-generating magnetosphere,
Shrinking daily, as the planet's poles reverse,
Will puncture like a too thin prophylactic.
The Christians will have just minutes,
Reminding us that we were prophesized
To all go out in fire and overlooking
That we're actually being ionized with radiation ---
A mere trifle to the True-Believers.
Will the Dow-Jones sell off in those final moments?
Will the Russians attempt to launch a Soyuz?
The Brits will take it all in stride with another pint;
Aussies venture on their final walkabout.
As for me, I'm gonna saddle up a pony
heading straight out to greet the Joshua trees.
I want to meet annihilation on my own terms.




Poetry by Brian Oarr
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Written on 2010-03-24 at 06:50

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I think I'd head to Joshua Tree with a pint.

All kidding aside, I think of my kids, and what a difficult world we have given them. No wonder they play video games, it's less frightening than reality.

Your poetic voice is sounding fatalistic today.

jim
2010-03-24


Elle The PoetBay support member heart!
This reminded me of a Tom Lehrer song. It is sobering, I do have a vague faith of sorts as a rather lapsed catholic but have always had a revulsion of those with frenetic faith who run up mountainsides whenever they thing the end of world is nigh, claiming they will be the only ones saved. I guess the only comforting thought in mass anihilation, with a bit of luck it will be quick and we won't know much about it. I enjoyed, if enjoyed should be the word, reading this. Very good, black humour excellently portrayed. A good critical look at governments and organised religions.

Elle x

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2010-03-24



Very sobering thoughts. With more and more countries either already in possession of nuclear weapons or planning on getting them, the threat of mass annihilation has probably not seemed so real since the Cold War. One wonders if there is not some sort of suicide wish built in to humanity. I'm for forgetting about "The Rapture" and trying to make life right her on our beautiful planet a little more rapturous and heavenly.

Cheers,
William
2010-03-24