Burn the whole thing down — secret wish of everyone for the apocalypse, for the great revolution, the great dying, in which the multiples screaming will finally be quiet. Be quiet! They say. Be quiet! As glass breaks. As the youth, eighteen, the only ones who will legitimately live into the 2070s look at what that world will be and despair
your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.
The influence of gaslight or electric light on the growth of paraheliotropic trees 