It's Still Life

What Were You Thinking …

that
everyone felt that rise and fall,
that it was breathing. waves in the sky,

that
my feet were on the ground
so my head was safe in the stars,

that
you and I were safe because we
turned the key between us,

that
the only way out is from where you came,

that
greenhouse gas makes the whole
universe burp,

that
not every invention is a guillotine,

and that
double-sided tape is quite useful
for keeping things in their place.

dVerse Looking Up, image credit: http://spacetelescope.org/images/ and http://www.esa.int/ and http://www.nasa.gov/ and J. Hester (Arizona State Univ). The poem’s title in inspired by B. Young’s reference to The Dead Mule’s School.