Wake Up

life is but a nightmare dreaming

iCollective Artwork by A.B. Godfreed

final conflagration
ends
the human race
web of life beyond
point of return

— mass extinction —

dust to dust
all our own
doing
and yet
we twiddle thumbs merrily
in this is a dream
in reality
wanton rubbing of hands in glee
at this acquisition
or that possession
all
expensive shit
has hit the fantasmagorical
nothing is concrete
yet see
us
slip
|
descending into
bottoming
out
of
existence

all debts, then, paid
in this final
settling of karmic accounts
for the wages of ecological sin
are death
our collective drive
to extermination — it’s no metaphor,
we do sink
in some planetary annihilation
all selves included
irrespective
of who’s zoomin’ who…