Alas we live
continually in the past
sunlight taking
a good 8 minutes to get to us
across those long lonely galatic reaches
to smile upon us little creatures.
That big old fat sun
(though really realatively young)
our friendly familiar
yellow hydrogen bomb
is doomed...
....doomed to go bust
in just
another mere 5 billion years or so.
And so, being a sensible man
I am determined to get as much sun as I can
cancer be damed!
And so
I brown form head to toe
whilst drinking copious Campari & So...so...soda.
Staying perfectly calm
& perfectly pissed
enjoying the sun
or what's left of it.
Dónall Dempsey
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bring-me-sunshine-for-my-old-pal-al/
