May 14, 2018

On Earth

on Earth we are

(approximately)

seven-point-five billion

men, women and children

and beneath us lies

(again, approximately)

one-hundred-fifty million

square kilometers

averaging things

for the sake of argument

(once again, approximately)

fifty of us

could be filling

every square kilometer

if we all got together

to be uniformly far apart

(our cardinal neighbour

would always be distant

one-hundred-forty-two meters)

we couldn’t turn around

without seeing someone

we’d never not hear

their voice

there’d always be a neighbour

to hear you call for help

which begs the question

of why I feel so alone