What’s to happen at the end of the world?
What precursors, indicators, evidence?
A bang or a whimper, man-made or natural?
Will it feel like the end of the world?
Will I worry about it, dread it, fear it,
party like an idiot for nothing else matters?
All sorts of people have notions what will be
this putative end time, this doomsday,
the great finality. But probably it’s not
a public disgrace, a divorce, an embarrassment…
the only thing that’s the end of the world
is the end of the world.