That Time at Crawfish Junction When God Got Mad at Me for Naming A Bong After The Angel Metatron Who Isn't Even In The Bible By The Way
It’s after the end of the world, don’t you know that yet?
Since 33, most have believed the Apocalypse would come in their lifetime.
It’s probably because when something ends, it is then finished,
And finished things will no longer produce novelty.
Admittedly, most of this Planet’s novelty is bleak——
How often immense hope is co-opted by the forces of fear
To end in failure.
So too History must end,
But it came before thyme and after singing;
In this life it ain’t no Burger Kinging——
When Ol' John P had his way, the truth we did forget.
It’s after the end of the world, don’t you know that yet?
Still, when Dr. Sulla, M.D., marched on Rome,
He thought that materialized will could purge
The instability within.
When they returned and found his house swept and garnished… etc etc…
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So when he thus proscribes
Some antipsychotics and SSRIs,
[Inaudible] and tummyaches is all they will get.
It’s after the end of the world, don’t you know that yet?
Seeing Behemoth and Leviathan in the Food Lion self-checkout causes me no alarm,
Neither does
Beast 666,
Mycellic Macro-Fascism,
Senatorial Simony,
My Foreskin,
The Canaanite Pantheon,
The Beats,
Fort Hill,
Trapper Nelson,
The Tortured Poets Dept.,
Enriched Flour,
Deli Meat,
And The One Basquiat Copy (of many),
For sale on the shelves,
Discounted, even, if you jumped through some hoops,
Because I know the one thing you cannot lose:
Your soul, and all transience which brings it to regret.
It’s after the end of the world, don’t you know that yet?