Status Updates From The World Keeps Ending, and...

“As a child,
I couldn’t believe my luck: born

in the best country on Earth.
Now I know better. So what.”

“Sixty-six million years after the end of the world, I click purchase
on an emergency go-bag from Amazon. When it arrives, I’ll use my teeth
to tear open the plastic, unzip the pack stitched by girls who look like me
but for their N95s, half a judgment day away, no evacuation plan in sight.”

“Am I greedy for comfort
if I ask you not to kill my friends—if I beg you to press your heel
against my throat—please, not enough to ruin me,
but just so—just so I can almost see your face—”

“I was born from an apocalypse
and have come to tell you what I know—which is that the apocalypse began
when Columbus praised God and lowered his anchor. It began when a continent
was drawn into cutlets. It began when Kublai Khan told Marco, Begin
at the beginning. By the time the apocalypse began, the world had already ended.”

Oh man this SLAPS