Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Monday, 8 April 2024

The Millions.

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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