killing time

by jackie sheeler on November 23, 2008

i am drinking tea with honey while the bees die.

i am eating fritters made with the corn that kills wombs.

without bees, soon, no more food. without wombs, soon, no more babies. maybe that’s a good thing, the perfect pairing. if there are no more babies we won’t need any more food. of course, if we — with our potions and poisons and tinkered genetics — disappear, then the bees will return for our habits will no longer be killing them.

and then there will be food again. no human mouths.

maybe that’s a good thing, for us all to die before eating our own irradiated recycling and birthing the few conceivable babies with six arms but no faces or fingers.

let’s just do it: die before the plague and the hurricanes, the drought and the flood.

before another dozen bodiless feet wash ashore in british columbia. severed, waterlogged, mysterious. how many more will there be? before our soldiers poison the world with their burnings.

while there is still some honey, still enough untainted water to make some cups of tea.

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Collin November 24, 2008 at 12:42 am

It does feel like the whole planet is teetering on oblivion, even with Obama taking office, I still don’t feel as comforted as I thought I would.

Concerned and pissed June 5, 2009 at 3:23 pm

I hate this system of things,this system that’s screwed by so many careless humans,who don’t listen to a word the concerned people are trying to convey.Stop destroying our beautiful world,you lazy,fat,careless world,you heartless,uncaring,killers.Our Earth is not going to survive much longer,are anyone of you going to be ready when that time comes?If the world was your child you would do anything to take care of it,not hurt it and destroy it.Losers,losers,losers!!!!

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