the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and the men drink too
much
and nobody finds the
one
but keep
looking
crawling in and out
of beds.
flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
for more than
flesh.
there's no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.
nobody ever finds
the one.
the city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill
weirdly, or maybe not-weirdly, photos like this fill me with hope.
Because no matter how much we stamp our feet and insist on being All-Important, maybe we’re actually not so much, and after we take ourselves off the game board in a huff of indignation, Life will barely notice we were there.
Letting teens sleep in could save the
US over $9 billion dollars a year. Studies
show teenage brains are wired to stay
up and wake up late, they need 8 to 10
hours of sleep per night, and that school
therefore starts too early. It is estimated
that high school classes starting after
8:30 am or later would improve student
health, boost graduation rates, raise
lifetime earning potential, and lower the
risk of fatigue-related car crashes, all
of which could potentially contribute at
least $83 billion to the US economy
within a decade. SourceSource 2Source 3
Wolves can shape the ecosystem and physical geography of the land they live on. When wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park in ‘95 after a 70-year absence, trees grew faster, animal populations increased, and rivers even changed their behavior because new vegetation helped reduce erosion. SourceSource 2Source 3
Mark Twain loved to travel and once
wrote, “Travel is fatal to prejudice,
bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and
many of our people need it sorely on
these accounts. Broad, wholesome,
charitable views of men and things
cannot be acquired by vegetating
in one little corner of the earth
all one’s lifetime.” SourceSource 2
