I said
Mr Schaefer
Did you get up to see the comet:
and:
he said
Oh no
Let it go by. I don’t care:
he has leaves to rake
and the
plunger on his washing machine isn’t working right:
he’s not amused
by ten-million-mile tails
or any million-mile-an-hour
universal swoosh
or
frozen gases
lit by disturbances
across our
solar arcs.
Disinterested, disconnected, inwardness, unaware----how very sad! He takes pains with small things of no matter while he misses the huge consequential events of life.