what i can’t understand is
how it used to be
in the big ancient chunks of time
when the earth was still
trying to get its shit together
before the engine of speech
tore through our brains
running down stragglers
guzzling everything
that people looked out
at a sky so cut up with stars
and all that colossal black drool
and didn’t just bash their heads in
or set their families on fire
and drive them away
into the goddamned
bloodthirsty jungle
what i can’t understand is
how we were even able to hold on
with the whole planet spinning
like it was trying to make us dizzy
why we didn’t dig up the old volcanoes
after they got bored and shrank away
just so we could cry
and scream at them for leaving us
i didn’t want to scare you but
what i can’t understand is
why there aren’t more fossils
of lonely imploded humans
that simply fizzled out and quit
and hucked themselves
into some random bloated ocean
because everything out there was laughing
that terrible gooey laugh
and we didn’t know
what exactly that meant
but probably it meant
‘i dare you’
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