I’ll be Dead by Then - Jan. 23, 2025

the earth was not meant to be

on a rack in an oven

pollution and other delinquents

playing with the knobs

and no one trying to stop them

many of us will expire

before it’s done but continue

to slice off chunks

of well-done meat

before it burns to a crisp

the logic of I’ll be dead

by then is the greed of consuming

the last course left of earth

while the line stretches

into the future  

the unborn will be starving  

before they arrive

and never know the world

was once every kind of

vegetable

and salad green

blueberry pie

soft vanilla ice cream