The fires rise, once in a thousand years
every summer now
once in a millennia
the end of days over the A.M. band tells me in my basement rocking recliner
that the dust and smell and stain
someday will rise to heaven
and there is no need to fear – but every fear
and I laugh at the derision, and I sip my whiskey and leer
The great mammoth stalks by my cracked frame windows
the sabre tooth cat sits upon the sill and her tail flicks at the
broken glass
and the cave men tell me they hear nothing
but the conservation of long maths
and when I see the old gods dying
and the sky reaching down fingers of flame
if I see the sequoias lying, overtoppled, in ashes, all the same
I will understand all those who call in drunk
and scream to the crass and wicked dj
endgame, endgame