Thursday, October 17, 2024

Numb. 1176 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

The mail in Japan was always delivered.

Except in Hiroshima after the bomb.

Curious, isn’t it, how life persists,

forever insisting on going on?


1948: I was five, I recall.

A boy, more mature,

on a bike maybe 12

on 76th Street just off 11th,

stamped an ant hill

just for the thrill of it.

I sharpened a Popsicle stick

on the sidewalk and

stabbed a hole in bike's front tire.


Scrambling ants reconstructed their hill.

The tire was mended. My Mom paid the bill.

Whatever happens, life will persist.

Until and unless the meteor hits.

Or Trump is elected and world goes to bits.

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