Tonight's Poet Corner: Twenty-First Century
Twenty-First Century by Belinda Roddie The end of days began with lizards birthing themselves from pits of lava. They could withstand all heat, and so' the snakes and they took over both the Hawaiian islands and the Florida Keys. The end of days continued with mild-mannered people confessing to be vampires on Instagram, before they sucked the blood from the necks of significant others, who had fetishized the act long, long ago. The end of days progressed once the Nordic gods convened at a Round Table pizza, debating both how to eradicate Canada, as well as whether or not anchovies deserved their place on a standard pizza pie. And finally, the end of days concluded with a kiss beneath Mount Vesuvius, where Pompeii had been fossilized and where Herculaneum sealed lovers like us in rock and magma. Somehow, their silver rings still shone. Gold had lost its luster before the eruption.
