Saturday, May 9, 2026

WE SHOULD BE WORRIED

We should be worried

that the cockroaches are dead
    And that no cricket chirps at dusk

to hear the brittle crunch
of bee carcasses
underfoot,

and that only vultures fly

That
skeletal cicadas are mute
and that pale fishes float,

face up in our putrid seas

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

A nuclear attack would be worse.

rita