You’ll abandon for just awhile, that’s to say,
our humdrum Planet Earth.
And you’ll leave that frenetic human fray –
that mother who gave you birth.
Many folks have already done it –
you can tell by the vacant stares
of pilgrims who have set out upon it,
abandoning their affairs,
their bills, their jobs, and their diapered kids
to the happenstance of neglect…
yes, their vacant stares and their drooping lids
and their loss of self-respect
as they revert to phases infantile
and grunt with simple syntax,
spreading out on their infinite tile
and scrawling with “amor” and “pax”
their tabula rasa of love and peace
and passive aggressiveness
that will not pause or simply cease.
Let’s watch as they make a mess of this!