A condescending poet* of the smug asks
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
don't have a choice
and if they're wild they go to prison
and other people oft ensure
that plans go oft awry...
and how precious can one life be
amongst 8 billion merely-visiting
spoilers of the Earth ?
“Listen – are you breathing just a little,
and calling it a life?”
Millions cannot breathe more than just a little...
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*Mary Oliver (1935-2019), a Pulitzer Prize-winner, of course.
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