a heat dome
is settled snugly
over texas

i long to watch
the manufactured
bits marring an
otherwise scenic
view melt slowly
rivers of molten
asphalt slowly
swallowing each
remnant of our
indecent follies

as the ice caps
retreat in reticence
the ragged remains
of the last ice age
clinging capriciously
to gradually warming
global incontinence

i wonder if
whatever new weirdness
eventually spawned
from the encroaching
immolation of our
incipient species
will value this
mathematical impossibility
more than we did

or will they simply
take it for granted
as has every other
monstrosity grown
from this wobbling
petri dish existing
in an irradiated vacuum

it doesn’t matter
nothing does when viewed
from the gaze of eternity
every extinction event
merely scrap for whomever
inherits this shit show
to sift through until
the next inevitable wave