Dec 2019
**** NOTHING
**** nothing. Out of 3,400 years
of recorded history, only a
few over 200 have been
deemed peaceful. Wars are
the most heinous acts perpe-
trated by human beings against
other human beings, yet wars
remain the basso continuo of
our collective existence. Over
half of the GNP of the United
Sates is spent on the military
and the myriad weapons we
procure for it to **** other human
beings. This is pure madness.
I **** nothing. I am a conscientious
lover. If a gnat, so small I can
barely see it crawling across my
desk, I will not **** it, because every
living creation in the Cosmos is
sacred. Do not **** to eat. Eat fruits
that come from plants that will keep
on living. Eat vegetables from
plants whose natural lives will
end shortly. We are now killing
Mother Earth: castastrophic climate
change and nuclear holocaust are
existential threats to all living creations.
One hydrogen bomb is a thousand
times more deadly than were each
of the atomic bombs we dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, yet there
are thousands of hydrogen bombs
around the world today. And even if
only one were accidentally to explode,
it would be enough to create “nuclear
winter,” which, in turn, would destroy
all life on Earth. **** nothing.
Copyright 2019 Tod Howard Hawks
**** nothing. Out of 3,400 years
of recorded history, only a
few over 200 have been
deemed peaceful. Wars are
the most heinous acts perpe-
trated by human beings against
other human beings, yet wars
remain the basso continuo of
our collective existence. Over
half of the GNP of the United
Sates is spent on the military
and the myriad weapons we
procure for it to **** other human
beings. This is pure madness.
I **** nothing. I am a conscientious
lover. If a gnat, so small I can
barely see it crawling across my
desk, I will not **** it, because every
living creation in the Cosmos is
sacred. Do not **** to eat. Eat fruits
that come from plants that will keep
on living. Eat vegetables from
plants whose natural lives will
end shortly. We are now killing
Mother Earth: castastrophic climate
change and nuclear holocaust are
existential threats to all living creations.
One hydrogen bomb is a thousand
times more deadly than were each
of the atomic bombs we dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, yet there
are thousands of hydrogen bombs
around the world today. And even if
only one were accidentally to explode,
it would be enough to create “nuclear
winter,” which, in turn, would destroy
all life on Earth. **** nothing.
Copyright 2019 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and human-rights advocate his entire adult life. He recently finished his first novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.
