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sound waves usher by my ears

light waves course by my eyes

i do not know whether to laugh

or to cry

so instead

i sigh

~~~

my brain takes the fragments in

i try to form or forge a story

some semblance of sense out of words

~~~

i’ve just come home from work

some call it jet-setting

and say how exciting

what once felt so inviting

my body now recoils from

leaving me more depleted

And far less elated

~~~

because the truth is

i’ve left another carbon footprint

etched in the atmosphere of

mother earth

yet in doing so,

the refrain —

gifted to me in years past

in philosophy class

the benign indifference of the universe

echoes in my brain

~~~

i consider: