he looked off the bridge down
into the creek for the turtle he spied weeks ago during the rains
it had been keeping towards the
bank sunning on a concrete footing to what must have been an earlier bridge
the water flowed just inches
beneath its perch
if approached it could step a couple
of times and be in the stillquick flowing water
he looked for it
it wasnt there today not as it had been when he took random peek-sees
looking today he thought a quake in his gut Why do I
have to look at soddensunken cardboard boxes shopping baskets a cart the sole
of a ditched gym shoe Taint fucking taint everywhere it reminded him of
plasticsthe sinister microplastics in the oceans in the guts of birds whales
fish turtles he was finally wrapping his head around
the factthe fact that the worldthe way it was being treated by humans by their
enormous fucking brains by sociopathic corporations who would win at any cost who werent being competitive or ambitious rather call it exactly what it was greed business greed synonymous the world has become nothing more a dump a trash heap
hundreds of thousands millions knew that but he inhabitinginculcated in the First World shouldnt the whole world be the
First World was slow they knew EARTH/TRASH HEAP longer than he no
apologeezs would suffice
his Homo sapiens species everyone alive are Homo sapiens the
Neandertals Denisovans other human species were sent packing
died more likely killed off his vastly communicative
social species founded by Mitochondrial Eve she-whose-voicebox-articulations-created-language is kicking the can down the road for future can-kickers and refuses to assume the responsibility
for deflowering despoiling the Earth more rapidly than any prior generation
he wasnt a betting man
but hed bet his life
savings he did save human Armageddon was going to be horrible painful ugly he could only wonder what dominant species would come next possibly cockroaches living doesnt demand overt intelligence or
intellect they have slithered among us stealthily
since living among the Terrible Lizardsthe dinosaurs or maybe soft pliable octopuses landmass is disappearing maybe theyll get a tentaclehold
maybe he ought to quit looking off bridges
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1227, Reggae Friday, 19 4.
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optimistic Zager and Evans In the Year 2525 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQfxi8V5FA
