Flutters and Bleeds

If everything comes from catastrophe,
which the latest cosmology tells us it does –
we being the leftover buzz from a bang

that continues to muzzle all hope
for reprieve from disasters like asteroids,
bigotry, gamma rays, ice ages, hatred,

volcanoes, the meaningless spilling
of blood, earthquake, terror, flood, landslide
and greed – among other inevitabilities

caused by some chronic insentient
dispassionate blast of indifferent stuff –
if everything works on the premise

that nothing is ever enough – that we’re
simply what happens to matter abandoned
for millions of eons (it breeds) – electrical

spasms that pass for vitality randomly
spewing out seeds – no wonder
the heart in you flutters and bleeds.

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