| Man was born man walked the earth man watched animals walk and run and man thought, why should I struggle let the animals carry me and he rode donkeys and horses and camels. And man saw that the animals died so man devised a mechanical animal to ride him around earth and man created car and drove in style. Man got to the river and pondered how to cross and man made boats and ships and yachts and cruised in comfort. Man drove to the top of a mountain and watched birds fly and vowed in envy to emulate them and man developed airplanes and helicopters and flew above the birds to the clouds and in greed, he wished he could see what hid from view above his head and man crashed through and flew into the firmament in ships rocketing into space and walked on the night light in the sky, planted a flag and cameras and drones and spied to know everything and he called the universe his own. When man got bored, he built bigger cars that used more fuel and he had to dig deeper holes to make more fuel, then the cars were too slow so he paced them to race, built roads and bridges so man could go anywhere at anytime. Now descendants of man breathe in fumes instead of air drink chemicals instead of spring water eat fish and mammals metastasizing bad cells crowd house on top of house and ungrass the parks, and man concretes streets and driveways to park his big SUVs and man gets bored… and man builds guns and bombs and man lets his greed create war because he wants more and more and man grows bored, and it’s not long before man is gone. ~ J R Turek J R (Judy) Turek is a poet, editor, workshop leader, with two Pushcart Prize nominations. She is the author of Imagistics and They Come And They Go. J R lives on Long Island with her soul-mate husband, her dogs, and her extraordinarily extensive shoe collection. msjevus@optonline.net |