Conjugating The Verb ‘To Say Something About Extinction’


This week the Arctic Circle reached the highest temperature ever recorded. We are rapidly approaching, if we haven't already passed, the point where the evidence for climate change is the evidence for extinction. This is my contribution from my forthcoming collection Dyer & Mahfouz.


Conjugating The Verb ‘To Say Something About Extinction’


Clapping for Capitalists with Children. Quasicrystalline mannered 
Between the amorphous poset of the dead and completely dead.
Young birds fly from the nest or fall like discarded beer cans, late 
night pizza boxes, young detritus. Tiny delicate birds decathect
With or without us, profitcunts bijective to deathcunts reboot
exciting joy at new products - a false antecedent and a false 
consequent atmosphere overloaded with the vertical electric 
charge in the planetary boundary layer of aerosol particles. A
picture – foot-stamping won’t help, you can’t swim in your boots.
The extreme separation anxiety of our anomalous atmosphere,
Decaying as ignoble gas; maybe, we weren’t supposed to make it.

Wealth can provide independence of mind. Wealth 
affords one a position of natural leadership and trust. 
Wealth enables one to live more healthfully, with fewer of 
the




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