Doomsday Clock minute hand...

hovers over 100 seconds to midnight

as of January 2022,

which apocalyptic prognostication

established by the Bulletin

of Atomic Scientists

maintained since 1947,

the clock quantifies a metaphor

for threats to humanity

from unchecked scientific

and technological advances.

Very thin sliver of time remains

before zero hour realized,
but countless heroic measures attainable
prior to Doomsday Clock striking midnight

(witnessing global annihilation unleashed

courtesy malevolent forces

wrought by egregious

ingenious narcissistic mankind),

whereby civilization inextricably linkedin

ominous quaking storied unsettling webbed

wide world harbingers
vitiated by weapons of mass destruction

loom ever closer unless
Homo sapiens can unite,
whereby at least one obscure Yiddish word
Ongematert (tired out,

albeit psychologically wracked)
will render nuclear stockpile superfluous
(the idealist trumpets long live
The Naked Ape a 1967 book

by English zoologist

and ethologist Desmond Morris

chronicling humans as species)
proving supremacy of virtue

versus nipping in bud everyone
wishing their kith and kin
final fare thee well upon

debacle potentially fateful genocide

describing, horrifying, liberating Gaia

of peopled pestilential maelstrom,

(hence purchase front row tickets now)

visible clear across thee solar system,

which could theoretically occur tonight
before betokening apocalyptic sight

'course one must go about
her/his business – right?

Rhetorical question troubles

existential nihilist (me)

how to shrug off monstrous plight
(ghastly hellacious towering

mushroom cloud infernos)

analogous to punishment allotted Atlas

re: to hold up earth

on his shoulders for all eternity

at last count oblate spheroid

weighing a whopping 13 thousand,

170 billion trillion pounds,

or 13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
impossible mission quite

challenging, where one
brother grimm ponders plight,
when with instantaneously "poof"
jump/kick starts irrevocable dissolution

of fledgling acquaintanceships

and long established friendships
within eye blink

(think snapped fingers) outright

regardless, whether...
perchance we ever
cross paths long daze
journey into night,
and met under virtual reality moonlight

ah... methinks the mere awareness
of poetess transient existence

metaphorically found modest, mercurial
mellow male within limelight

oy vey admittedly one
rusty Ongepatshket knight

fumbling in the dark with
his unreliable sputtering jacklight

hooping aforesaid gal, whose eyes alight
upon mine genuine words doth newt
coon sitter me laughable, nor impolite,

yet accept hard virtual reality to highlight
and/or _ underscore delight

full dame online - each of us,

an infinitesimal jot of granulite

within vast cosmos given finite

minuscule time to excite

our senses trending utmost delight

during brief unique
deoxynucleic chromosomal copyright

til death do us part,
whether natural demise
doomed to huge sinister clouds
speeding, spelling, spewing radioactive blight.

Uneasiness far greater
to confront atomic augury
than pernicious penury
which ceases within eyeblink

certainly far more serious than perjury,
(which yours truly never guilty),

nevertheless afflicting me
with psychological injury.

Personal finances pitted
me deep in hock
into red zone, yes
quite a shock,

to absorb - now finds yours
truly poorest oldest
curmudgeon goofy "kid"
in sexagenarian body

on the senior citizen chopping block
within Lake Woebegone
hard space and rock

as inevitable doom
each second - coming inevitably

approaches closer tick tock.