Status Updates From POMES (Poems) ALL SIZES

2024 so far is like my year of reading mostly not good books, especially mid poetry :// but here’s one poem from this collection that surprisingly hit hard:

Pax

I demand that the human race / ceases multiplying its kind / and bow out / I advise it

And as punishment & reward / for making this plea I know / I’ll be reborn / the last human

(I’ll add the last 2 stanzas in a comment because character limit)