After the apocalypse we stopped thinking<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clean water was something poor people just\nmight not have<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And spilling oil into the aquifers was\npart of the cost of doing business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cost of doing business came up a lot\nless,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the apocalypse; instead we said\nbalance,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We said nurture<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And when we said growth, we meant plants,\nanimals, each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the apocalypse we stopped saying\n“thank God that’s over”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About every year, every month<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the apocalypse, we learned to count\nagain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your voice, your voice, your voice, one\ntwo three all<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And not shut up shut up oh God shut up<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And not three two one where did they go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We stopped telling the kids not to ask\nabout that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the apocalypse we remembered a lot\nof old songs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wrote new ones<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thought we’d cry less but cried more for\nawhile<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Made up a really good recipe for bean soup<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That our brother-in-law doesn’t like and\nthat’s okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s not–<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It didn’t turn out to be–<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The end of the world<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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