"EVEN A HASSOCK WILL SEEM BEAUTIFUL"

even the when the final pest dies off
we will note it as something tragic,
something wrong and foreboding,
something that could have been avoided,
a kind of great tragedy in and of itself

because it carries implication :

what it means is
that the final pest will die
because it no longer has
any crops to even destroy

things changed in the end ---
the farm-fields burned to scorched soil

no more trees
no more water
no more flowers
no more air fresh to breathe

were we not all disturbed
as even the parasites were cleaned off the surface
of this raped little ball,
this cosmic wanderer, our human home ?

even the extinctions of roaches we will lament
there on the final days

in the end, the merest thought of seasons
will seem to you paradise, something lost to time,
something vintage, something glorious

in the end

even a hassock will seem beautiful