Matter

JE:

What in the world

What
In the world
Are we doing here?
In the world, where
Everything is at home,
In the world where it all works
except around us, where
It’s all screwed up and things are dying too fast.
We don’t belong in this beautiful working place;
What
In the world are we doing here?

ME:

A darwinian mistake
that will eventually auto-correct
in the usual darwinian
i.e. sociopathic
way

An EUS
evolutionary unstable
hence unsustainable
strategy

A blip

A bloody blip

yeah, true. There have been so far worse catastrophes before… so comforting.

Not worse.

The slow agony
we’ve made
of our prey species’
(i.e. all other species’)
lives
has no parallel
or precedent

or pardon

Our sole modicum
of mercy

sometimes

has been for our own

and we don’t deserve it

a blip:
meaning it won’t matter in a hundred thousand years,
right? (Thank you Thomas)
But goddammit, it matters now.

it matters
to our victims
now
and forever

and it’s all that matters
or ever did

Irreparable

and unpardonable

Redemption
is for souls
for whom
only they matter
or matter most

For their victims:

perdition

in this life

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