Poodwaddle.com may force us to drink
again, depressing hordes with statistics.
While learning day, date and time, psyche sinks,
viewing our globe’s growing number of sick
folks: two million with strained tickers, increased
one every three seconds. No sugar coat
for diabetes: a pancreas seized
within two minutes. But let’s not just gloat
on illness. What about wrecks, suicides,
war, abortions, divorce? There’s a tree lost
every two clock clicks. This earth we reside
on grows warmer each breath. One species tossed
to extinction just as I compose this.
No way this timepiece brings us catharsis.
Roger Armbrust
February 17, 2008
