Tuesday 7 February 2017

The End of the World Comes with Bad Poetry


The end of the world comes with a commercial.

The end of the world comes with a book describing the end of the world.

The end of the world comes with someone saying there were warning signs.

The end of the world comes with someone saying we should be worried.

The end of the world comes with a press conference.

The end of the world comes with marches and demonstrations.

The end of the world comes in words that pretend that there aren’t other words that better describe the end of the world.

The end of the world comes with a celebrity profile.

The end of the world comes with a money-off deal.

The end of the world comes with a debate on violence.

The end of the world comes with someone saying art will get better.

The end of the world comes with people’s rights being taken away.

The end of the world comes with someone believing things are better than they were before the end of the world.

The end of world comes because a country voted for it.

The end of the world comes on social media.

The end of world comes because no one thought the end of the world was possible.

Who will stop the end of the world?


Christian Martius (2017)