Friday, December 04, 2020

Who do you meet on planes?

People who like poetry. Sometimes.

"He called three nonprofits specializing in housing for the elderly. All of them said that they had a waiting list of between five and ten years. The news gave him insomnia. In the middle of the night, he wrote:

Millionaires and billionaires and trillionaires,
You will not be moving from this earth to any other planet.
You will not be importing water to start civilization on the moon.
My name is Augustus and I am here to announce your doom.
I want you to look me in my eye and read my lips
before you trip trying to run from the angry populations and board space ships."

 ~ F. Mari and A. Evans

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/07/using-the-homeless-to-guard-empty-houses?utm_source=pocket-newtab

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