but even if the world
was about to be destroyed
I think I’d be too busy
looking at you
to do much about it
and the end of the world
wouldn’t be as exciting
as a fraction of a glance
from you, cast in my direction
all of the stars colliding
and the end of all life
would hardly hold my attention
and certainly not keep it from you
all of the movie stars
naked in my bed, in my head
they don’t even weigh in the balance,
negligible, like electrons, the world
nothing but a cloud of energy
that surrounds our nucleus
the end of the world by Johnson Hagood is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.