Sunday, November 14, 2021

Okay, So It's the End of the World - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Okay, So It’s the End of the World

 

“What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?”

“There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter.”

 

-P. G. Wodehouse

 

Okay, so what if this is the end of our world

Windblown sands where Ozymandias once ruled

Or dying like Charn in The Magician’s Nephew

Pale and sere under a fading red sun

 

Let us not meet it pajama’d on a couch

Videogaming upon a telescreen

And suddenly marveling that the power has failed

As a moving hand writes across the skies

 

If the world is going to end today

Let us dress properly for the occasion

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