this assignment was easy peasy
(yeah riiight!)
……………….
do i sleep well every night?
of course i do!
i’m insignificant. who cares. we simply shouldn’t worry about it … about anything
sweetly dream on and on and on pablo
……………….
do i sleep well EVERY night?
hell no!
gotta get up at five and milk bossy before the school bus arrives
i have a bunch of latin responses for mass to memorize
i must get down coach gustafson’s trick devine warhorse football play before friday night in hondo
daddy won’t let me take kathy to the track meet in the car … guess i’ll pick her up in the bobtail pig-hauling truck
that SAT test matters!
i have to report on galbraith’s “the affluent society” and then gun control policy in my aggie speech class … and world record-holder shot-putter randy mattson is a classmate!
i am director of pest management for the TEXAS Department of Agricuture!!!
our st. philip’s president lecture series committee has to prepare for the arrivals of ossie davis, desmond tutu’s daughter, & chris hedges!
i have a poem to write for creekside poets
I AM IMPORTANT!!!!!!
***********************
“honey, will you please take out the trash before the city workers get here!
and you’re going to have to wash the dishes this morning, i have a federated women’s club meeting to get to”
***********************
will the 117 billion human beings and countless, TRULY COUNTLESS, other organisms which have existed for 3.7 billion years miss me?
will the 117 billion and countless other organisms even be missed?
(they’ve only been here for 3.7 billion years of the universe’s 13.7 billion years of existence)
… naw! … they’re insignificant
************************
HELL YEAH THEY”LL BE MISSED
HAVEN’T YOU HEARD OF EVOLUTION AND THE WEB OF LIFE AND ALL OF THE IMPORTANT UNKNOWN AND KNOWN SUB-ATOMIC, ATOMIC, MOLECULAR, CELLULAR, ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS AND CONNECTIVITY SINCE THE BIG BANG … AND THE UNKNOWN CONNECTIONS BEFORE
YOU, WE … ALL ARE AN IMPORTANT, IF INSIGNIFICANT, PART OF ALL OF THAT!
***********************
AMEN
pbm ( 7 Ss / VV->^^ )
