planetary preserver - original poem

planetary preserver

I wish to become

a planetary preserver

a savior to the stars

the one who makes 

America's heart melt

by the slime of creation

and lessons of arduous time

attached to the lecture notes

of a great, esteemed xenobiologist

his quavering handwriting reads

"A plan is only mental

never sure of it's course

but intuition -

it's something else

something oddly variant entirely

a lifeless endless stream

with gushing currents

and no commentary or guide

who can see past the brush

carrying a large machete

wafting and paddling

in endless circles 

of God's watery creation

on our planet yes

but within other species

on distant cores and crusts

not like our own"

damn. 

his words are unravelling

helping me fall into a pit of thieves

only to arise with a golden crown

rubies gems and bars and coins

he helped me find the reason

and those hadrosaur corpses 

were on the other side of the globe

like all the other pioneers

and current greats in the field

but I had a hunch 

an oh so clever hunch

that their numerical coordinates 

we're backwards

opposite

all out of whack

I found my own mountain

and boy did I climb

It was glorious I tell you

even in snowy conditions

and at the top 

the very goddamn alpine tip

I found the dinosaur bones

sitting on a silver platter 

my own sliver of truth

my own reason

for having the privilege

to start each day

fresh and anew

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