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Making a Mark (Free verse) by andrew barnes

When the super volcano beneath Yellowstone Park finally erupts, an asteroid strikes with the colossal force which wiped the dinosaurs from pre-history, the third antichrist, Mabus, comes to brief power as Nostradamus predicted, a stray nuclear warhead enters American airspace triggering their ballistic missile defense capability, the reactor at Three Mile Island begins irreversible fusion-driven melt-down, accelerated technological change fast-tracks the self-reproductive development of virtual intelligence, Judaism, Christianity and Islam clash in the final holy war, global warming melts the Polar ice-cap, raising the sea level, switching off the Gulf Stream currents and heralding a new ice age in continental Europe, then, there will be no marks or traces, writing, building, painting, sculpture, no Sistine chapel, or shapes scratched in the sand with a twig. Turns out even immortality has a time limit.

zodiac 27-May-05/2:17 AM
There is no reason to believe some art from our time won't make it past the next epic disaster. Um, proto-human art DID survive the last ice age. Of course, most of that was just interestingly shaped rocks.

I thought "stray nuclear warhead" was funny, though. Like it was just looking for the loo and got lost.




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