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The poetic city: “The Answer”

Jun 05, 2023 • Creative Writing, People, Writer

Jellyfish (the immortal) made from plastic bits of pollution (also feels immortal) hung throughout the Aquarium of the Americas. (Photos: Renee Peck)

The Answer

If it’s true that one day

the universe will disappear,

along with everything in it,

One can’t help wondering,

“Why bother?”

And if everything that has existed

will disappear without a trace

that it ever had existed,

What difference would it make

what one does or doesn’t do?

The answer is in the asking.

Reece Burka

2/22/2022

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