are in—
but the conclusion
is awkward:
hundreds of millions
of people
now living
are determined
they're all going to live
forever.
The catch is:
eternity doesn't mean
what it used to.
In this overcrowded,
overheating stockade
of a waiting room
in which pointing
to a lack of evidence
against you is a worldview,
the only definition
of forever
worth clinging to
is one second longer
than the sap
sitting next to you.
