we have really done it now
last month we shot a dart into a cute little moon peacefully orbiting its mommy asteroid seven million miles away knocking it silly imagine just having a pleasant star-time day then getting knifed by a sharp blade traveling at fourteen thousand miles an hour all because the science girls and boys tell us this bow and arrow might save us someday they claim to have looked back sixty-six million years when our lush rock got jolted by a six-mile-wide angry piece of broken star [ncoming at forty-five thousand miles an hour releasing the force of a billion hiroshimas a fiery rooster-tail plume of earth rock shot halfway to the moon local temperatures hemorrhaged many times hotter than the sun’s surface fire-storming the mammal-packed forests oceans tsunamied over the land followed by a deep sunless freeze below methane and carbon-soaked skies spiked with sulfuric acid rain leaving a few microbe clusters to struggle we beat the odds evolving out of the spoiled dinosaur-rich soup and poisoned soil to become the new royalty on the rock maybe the creator was so freaked by what had been wrought we were granted a brain capable of deflecting the next random asteroid maybe the science kids are onto something or just maybe some more refined organism will spring forth after our self-created collision with reality
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