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Everything Affects Everybody

Thom Woodruff

EVEN IF YOU ARE OFF-GRID
Even in a desert. Even away from “news”
Even on a private yacht or island.
You cannot escape others’ auras
Air links us, and earth, seas and skies
Every poem, prayer, petition, promise has a home
inside the air or skin or another’s ears or eyes
Even on the ISS, they pump the oxygen of wars
Even on the Moon-Space Whispers
Unexplained images from Webb and Hubble
WE ARE NOT ALONE (but they are not human)
Why dare we assume we are immune
to bacteria and organisms returning in plague proportions?
Science says irreversible environmental damage
Musk says “Multi-Planet Options”. Russia threatens to explode ISS
So Musk Internets STARLINK Ukraine. We are all Webbed.
One Degree of separation from Kevin Bacon, Francis Bacon
Bacon and egg burgers from McDonalds in Russia with NO REAL MEAT!
There is only shelter in this silence-between songs
wherein and whereby we can finally hear ourselves
Turning the News OFF, and beginning to listen...

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