Numb. 1088 Lookout Or Outlook?

WE'VE GOT Covid.

We've got pollution.

Inequitable wealth

and 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,

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.