Today, October 9, 2009, NASA bombed the moon so they could find water. Bad move. They might destabilize this fragile satellite, which some say is nearly hollow. The moon is a perfect sphere. Our ancestors worshiped the moon, named after the alchemical goddess Luna. The moon reflects for us the majesty of our existence, night by night. Bombing it is a desecration with grave unintended consequences.
On Sept. 27, 2003 the asteroid designated SQ222 passed within 54,700 miles of earth. It wasn’t detected until after it hurtled by and only then was it discovered that it was the closest known fly by of a life-ending asteroid. Some astronomers believe the moon’s gravitational pull had deflected SQ222, as it had deflected others for millions of years. This spawned a great deal of conjecture as to how important the moon is to human life. Most humans, however, hardly noticed. The incident was barely reported in the media. Then NASA decided to send a missile into it. This begs the question: can’t we be in awe of anything? Especially our own destruction? Is this some kind of a Cosmic Joke?
a pin ball bouncing between
karma and gravity.
had sped by earth and we never saw
it – like a splitter cut fastball
thrown by Rivera to close out
the inning.
fate we continue on, gone badly wrong.
when they visit the cookie dough.
Why don’t they
take us back to the factory to
modify the recipe?
the planet ever since we
could stand, now we act
like we belonged here.
This planet will survive us puny
interlopers, even when it becomes
barren rock, albeit in a less pristine state
than when we found it.
because we grew tired of it.
Such is the life of an human
organism
made of little more
than space garbage.
our skin. Inmates all of us
who suffer themselves then recycle
into organic compost, just so
much clay trying to trying to differentiate
from other corrosive bits of cosmic
sludge that we either
fuck, eat or kill.
