the end,
when it came,
came slowly.
by then it wasn’t even news
we were drowning in the bullshit
we’d known what was coming for years
some people changed a few lightbulbs
and most learned to silence their fears
keep on saving money
keep buying the latest clothes
mining coal, watching tv,
recycling, voting green
they kept on making babies,
as the waters rose
you can close your mind
and hope for a future
emotionally and financially secured
the world will still end on tuesday.
destruction, mutually assured.
you can keep your life insurance
lock your doors
paint your windows white
hurry past, look away, look embarrassed
…don’t walk the streets at night…
we will stalk the streets with our madness
our ability to conceive of disaster,
even when it is manmade...
we will wear our masks as a warning:
the end of the carbon age
NO HOPE
NO FUTURE
and we are coming for your children.
dad kept on lying.
he lied about the war
he lied about oil terror
he lied every night on the news
he lied about climate change
and you are the ones left to lose
beginning. middle. end
hope. stops. here.
and you have only got a few years left
to get angry
"it is no longer success that counts
people will have to know that there was resistance"
[claus schenk von stauffenberg :: 1944 july plot to kill adolf hitler]
1 comment:
I particularly like that quote at the end.
This time there may not be anyone left to know that we resisted. But whether or not we still have time to change things, I need to look back and know that I didn't just convince myself that there was nothing I could do.
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