Rejoice! plant a tree and count
its years as rings in its bones;
it’s the last Earth Day, and everyone is here.

even woolly mammoth in the body of a mouse,
just the one should be Enough,
count its years as rings in its bones.

dodo is back from its Mass grave
of hematophagy classified as Love,
just the one should be enough.

Cherish each sip of water today,
tapped by the generosity of the earth,
and classify your hematophagy as Love.

20 dire wolf genes make romulus and remus
fated for the dust of a Zoo
by the generosity of the earth.

drop crinkled plastic into blue bins
and wonder if it matters when we’re all
fated for the dust of a Zoo.

we Stand in poison and raining glass,
build a thin iridium wall,
and wonder if it matters at all.

homo sapiens has Returned from the stars
to profess our Love to a swirling marble
Cake with a thin iridium wall.

cut the Cake, watch it bleed,
Drink, and babble hematophagy,
and profess your Love to a swirling marble.

just the one was too much.
Rejoice, plant a tree.
it’s the last Earth Day,
and everyone is here.

[1] Tree trunks and woolly mammoth tusks both feature “growth rings” which can be used to determine the age of the organism and its relative health at any point during its lifetime. In 2024, the genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences Inc. genetically engineered lab mice to feature traits associated with woolly mammoth.

[2] Dodo was hunted to extinction (often for food) by Dutch sailors, and a hematophagic parasitoid consumes a host organism’s blood for food until the host ultimately dies.

[3] In 2024, two modern gray wolf pups were born with 20 “dire wolf” gene edits as part of a project by Colossal. The two pups were named Romulus and Remus after the legendary founders of Rome, and scientists question if there’s any place left for the dire wolf in a modern ecosystem.

[4] 66 million years ago, an asteroid impacted the planet, causing the extinction of ~75% of species on Earth, a thin iridium line to form in geological records across the planet, and glass to rain from the sky. Today, climate change, nuclear tension, and other factors threaten an extinction event again.

[5] All of humanity has not been together on Earth at the same time since November 2nd, 2000.