BBB poetry

The millennium falcon

BY Sean Twohig

https://youtube.com/@menindorf?si=yMGszpJr6NrK2l6T

A sprawling, beat-inflected meditation on climate grief, false intelligence, and everyday complicity—where mountains outlast denial, tea boils beside apocalypse, recorded by Sean near a stream.

• On false equivalence and cosmic humility:

“The equal quality of a dog and a stone, of a bug and of man.”

• On climate denial and delayed consequence:

“Sounds crazy, and four degrees of warming seems so far away… which is nothing in the eye of a mountain.”

• On ecological violence:

“Redwood, redwood, other grove, other grove. Still being systematically murdered.”

• On passive resistance masquerading as action:

“This year, all they do is pray in silence and write letters to the editor.”

• On inherited prophecy and burdened foresight:

“He told you so that three quarters of the world would be destroyed. But he meant it only in his special language.”

• On moral paralysis:

“Ask my son if he’d rather have ten billion dollars or stop climate change. He couldn’t decide.”

• On modern contradiction:

“Oh yeah, and while you’re getting too hot, let’s add more blankets.”

• On collective guilt:

“Not just the ones with powerful dollars, but those penniless and afraid. All are to blame.”

• On domestic calm amid collapse:

“Now, who’s ready for some homemade warming tea?”

• On reluctant acceptance:

“I admit that I am punishing myself while I choose to live like this.”

• On the poem’s underlying ethic:

“Never gorge on the absolute.”