Almost There

When I see a little boy throw a tantrum on the sidewalk because his parents won't buy him an ice cream—I'm for him.When I watch a bronzed cop hassle an old drunk in the town square and ask for his papers—I'm against him.When I get woken up by a cat in heat yowling under my apartment window—I understand her.When I hear a siren tear through the night, I pray for the health of whoever is in the ambulance.I pray, without even believing in god.I wanted to be a new, modern man.I wanted to trap nature inside crowded zoos.I hoped to shed millennia of evolution like a snake sloughs its skin.To trade in my old fears for newer, more innovative ones.To replace my perpetual doubts with one single certainty:Life is not this blue-green planet. Life is me—and it'll be over in a moment

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