Momentous

What great things have taken place? Another war?
A famine? Legal triumphs? Lurid, tabloid shame?
A romance, taken from the screen, and seen, by
Means of long-range lenses, playing out upon
A beach? A new way to keep eating, and do
Nothing, and still rid oneself of stomach fat?
The world warms! A new disease! Another
Blinking Arab man is led, in chains, into a hole
For sending money to his country. Bigger things!
I had my breakfast. Spuds and sausage! I wrote
This! And, when I'm done, my death will go
Unnoticed. Where I live will turn to dust, as will
My nation, and the sun will have its stellar heart
Attack. The earth will freeze, but, somewhere else,
Something will pause as it eats breakfast,
Contemplate its paltry life, and wonder whether
Greater things than it has known have taken place.



Poetry by Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2010-09-19 at 12:30

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