a new planet to wreck
From Texas & New Mexico: Selected Poems 2015-2025.
reading
the news he
discovers
the boys at NASA are
using something called
Kepler data
and have
have detected
an earth–
like planet out there.
instruments
and distance being what they are
the NASA fellows
are not certain
about their findings
and admit
the planet may be
a big ball of human–
incompatible gas
mostly hydrogen and methane
like Neptune.
this would be
somewhat interesting
if not
for the fact
the new planet
is 1,400 light-years away
and not a candidate for habitation
in the aftermath of humans
wrecking this planet.
short of that
he thinks
clicking the mouse
we are basically
doomed.
a computer pulsates
across wires and space
and lands with full retro rockets
on Instagram
where Kim Kardashian
has posted more
selfies of her pregnant self
in a semi-sheer La Perla bodysuit
with a deep V-neckline.
he leans back
in the chair and takes in Kim
and thinks
it has
taken humanity
10,000 years to reach
its current
state of collective
mental illness.
