I knew about all sorts of recent happenings that now held no interest to me.
As a younger man I would have talked all about them to anyone who'd listen-
The flag of the United States had been raised in Havana after decades of tension,
a century-old gold mine in Colorado had spilled its poison and fish were dying,
archaeologists found the gate to the ancient city of Gath where once mighty Goliath grew,
legions of innocents died yearly across the globe to famine and violence-
these were the things I knew.
I didn't know how to make my mother proud of me,
or how to stop reading Hamlet all the goddamn time.
The world will drown you if you let it and sometimes even if you can swim
you will drown anyway because the ocean is a woman and the earth is a woman.
She kills us because she cannot tell the difference between her children
and the demons that destroy her but even if she could tell the difference
there is no guarantee that she would give a damn.
As a younger man I would have talked all about them to anyone who'd listen-
The flag of the United States had been raised in Havana after decades of tension,
a century-old gold mine in Colorado had spilled its poison and fish were dying,
archaeologists found the gate to the ancient city of Gath where once mighty Goliath grew,
legions of innocents died yearly across the globe to famine and violence-
these were the things I knew.
I didn't know how to make my mother proud of me,
or how to stop reading Hamlet all the goddamn time.
The world will drown you if you let it and sometimes even if you can swim
you will drown anyway because the ocean is a woman and the earth is a woman.
She kills us because she cannot tell the difference between her children
and the demons that destroy her but even if she could tell the difference
there is no guarantee that she would give a damn.
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