WE'VE GOT Covid.
We've got pollution.
Inequitable wealthand health distribution.
A broke Constitution,
dying seas rising,
polar downsizing.
Mass discontent
isn't surprising.
We've got anti-vaxxers,
GOP lower taxes,
unbreathable air
near everywhere,
near everywhere,
politicians unthinkable,
water undrinkable,
and, like Titanic,
we think we're unsinkable.
We've got desertification
crumbling nations.
We've disconnected
effect from causation.
We've got declining fertility,
less social mobility.
We are incapable
of truth distinction,
here on the brink
of mass extinction.
The weather is running amok.
Everything's coming unstuck.
We've got sexual predators
writing letters to editors.
With jobs disappeared,
who can pay creditors?
“To be”, the verb,
is no longer copular.
Baseball, our passtime,
ain't all that popular.
Could this all
be somehow oracular?
The world is shot.
How long's it got?
Rome, as they say,
wasn't kilt in a day.
But Rome dead end.
That us the trend.
Thank Phenobarbital,
we've nothing to dread, at all.
