Magnolia

slowly

even

in

the

vase

and

long

separated from its tree

a

bud

opens

in

spring

Monday, March 24th, 2025

What's up, Doc?

If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either.— Thomas Nagel,  The Absurd (1971)

Rabbits aren’t too bright;

foxes, badgers, raccoons, coyotes,

owls, hawks, eagles, crows, snakes,

dogs, cats, and people all eat them.

Their simple survival strategy is sex.

They breed like rabbits.

And when those predators have mostly disappeared,

wiped out for all the usual reasons,

rabbits’ll likely still be there,

prey to a/the species, not quite as dumb—

sub specie aeternitatis

—that multiplies that way, too,

hopping together into the incessant future

as cute as all get-out!

Wednesday, March 19th, 2025

Paternity

Genghis Khan died on August 25, 1227,

mourned (?) by some 600 wives,

and at his grave the Mongols immolated thirty maidens.

Eight hundred years later, half of humankind reportedly descend from him.

In the year 2827, it would be but just

If half the world sprang from the loins of Elon Musk,

at whose sepulchre let ’Mericans now resolve

to decommission thirty virgin replicants.

It's never too soon to firm up such funeral plans!