Six Billion People

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by Tom Chandler

And all of you so beautiful
I want to bring you home with me
to sit close on the couch.

My invitation inserted in six billion bottles,
corked with bark from the final forest
and dropped in the ocean of my longing.

We would speak the language of no words,
pass the jug of our drunken joy
at being babies growing into death.

Sometimes, I know, life is stupid, pointless,
beside the point, but here's the point —
maybe we would fall

in love, settle down together,
share the wine, the bills,
the last of the oxygen and the remote.

Comments

  1. UnknownMay 2, 2009 at 4:45 AM

    Ooooooh! That should hit home for all of us!
    Jane

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  2. RudeeMay 2, 2009 at 5:09 AM

    "And dropped in the ocean of my longing?"

    Sometimes desire does seem like a vast ocean.

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  3. K.May 2, 2009 at 5:14 AM

    This is such a great poem! It makes me think of all the ways these days we try to get in touch with people...twitter, facebook, etc...all for the same purpose...

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  4. UnknownMay 2, 2009 at 5:24 AM

    Very good. Dark in a way.

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  5. C.M. JacksonMay 2, 2009 at 6:39 AM

    very good --cynicism mingled with hope.

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  6. dsMay 2, 2009 at 8:03 AM

    "...and the remote." Yeah, right. As if ;)

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  7. La FraméricaineMay 2, 2009 at 4:02 PM

    I have no children and am always fascinated in the presence of the kind of optimism that allows one to choose to procreate or the kind of denial that inspires religious admonitions to refrain from "planning" to procreate, or not.

    This poet is speaking my language.

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  8. Teresa aka TessMay 2, 2009 at 8:48 PM

    Wow! I love all of the really profound stuff you find and post here.

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