Götterdämmerung — Prologue

First Norn

We’ve been weaving the rope of Fate

Since humankind’s earliest date,

From hunter and gather

To thinking they’d rather

Be planting the stuff that they ate.

Second Norn

With resources heedlessly chucked,

Most people’s lives really sucked:

Backbreaking and numbing,

(You knew this was coming)

Until they were royally fucked.

Third Norn

Their peaks have been passed, no retakes;

They can’t reverse their mistakes—

Wait—something’s not right—

Too slack or too tight?

The rope becomes tangled! It breaks!

Second Norn

It breaks!

First Norn

It breaks!

BAU

I’m O.K. with more BAU—

It’s better than being all through;

The truth is, my friend,

I don’t want it to end,

And neither, I’m betting, do you.

We’d be smart to shut our damn yaps

And keep this doom stuff under wraps:

If we kept it hush-hush,

We might put off the rush

To inevitable collapse.

But it doesn’t take a savant

To excuse being nonchalant:

Once we admit

That we can’t change jack shit,

It doesn’t matter what we want.

H/T: Gail Zawacki 

TH_ H_RR_R TH_ H_RR_R

Ann Coulter says “The worst thing and I think the most offensive is that ‘global warming deniers,’ comes from people who are ‘Holocaust deniers.’”

http://www.salon.com/2014/05/22/ann_coulter_jumps_to_the_defense_of_pat_sajak_climate_deniers/

Collapse will surely expose

Every hatred the human heart knows

As cruelty grows

Unrestrained. So it goes—

Please give me two “E’s” and four “O’s.”

H_LY SH_T

Pat Sajak will say:

Soon nobody can deny

That everything’s going to fry,

Resulting thereby

In no food supply—

Please give me an “O” and an “I.”

J_ST K_DD_NG

Pat Sajak said. 

The help that a vowel purchase buys

Adds hope that on one of these tries

There’ll be some kind of prize

Before our demise—

Please give me a “u” and two “i’s.”

W_’R_ F_CK_D

Pat Sajak says: "I now believe global warming alarmists are unpatriotic racists knowingly misleading for their own ends."

The letters are only a few,

So the puzzle is easy to do:

No overall view

Was ever more true—

Please give me three “e’s” and a “u.”

Once In A Lifetime

You may find yourself on the run

With no escape once doom’s begun;

And one unreal day,

You may hear yourself say,

“My God!...What have I done?”

Doing Time on Death Row

Knowing our time left is waning,

We look at our lives with less feigning;

And we try to maintain,

Chasing pleasure, not pain,

To fill up the time that’s remaining. 

Science

Belief without facts for reliance

Is reality noncompliance;

But it’s hard, I assume,

To evaluate doom

Without basic knowledge of science.

9/11

People lie, but let’s be succinct:

Believing whatever is linked

To 9/11

Or God in his heaven

Doesn’t change going extinct. 

Summer 2014

Make popcorn and check out the scene:

Too much heat and diminished cuisine;

As the truth becomes known,

Many minds will be blown

In the summer of twenty fourteen. 

It’s A Good Day

It’s a good day for watching doom spread,

Working hard, and getting ahead;

For picking up clues

You can’t win, only lose—

It’s a good day for staying in bed.

It’s a good day for reading this thread,

For working to fix your doomstead,

Or to drink up your booze

On a terminal cruise—

It’s a good day for waking up dead. 

Hierarchy vs. Extinction

Why does some doom talk conflate

Social rank with extinction debate?

Inequality’s strife

Is found throughout life

And can’t change, because now it’s too late.

We might seek fairer ways to cope,

But sliding down Hubbert’s slope

Means vanishing shares

For us and our heirs:

NTE extinguishes hope.