Suddenly, nothing grew

The crops around the planet died

The air went dry without dew

The wind carried sands that fried

Hot like a Venusian summer

Cold like a Martian winter

What happened asked rat number two

Rat number one could not answer

He was dead as two would soon be too

We’re completely out of luck

Number two thought, barely cogent

Those nuking monkeys with their muck

Their global warming let run amuck

That mega solar flare coming last night

An asteroid from Jupiter’s Trojan

Falling with its destructive might 

Dislodged by a stray rocket

Of a scientific dumb cadet

And Superman down with Kryptonite

In a ruined movie house on fire

Playing with no noise nor fanfare

All ills at the same time from the orient

And from the other side irrelevant

Too many one dangers convergent

Nothing could outlive this end of history

No-one could beg for redemption

For this was worse than Armageddon

God too late for his last benediction

A comet of ice had struck as well

Neptune’s bones and medusa desiccated

All the oceans gone to a burning hell

Even Lucifer had been dislocated

No incoming alien rescue crew

The crops around the planet had died

The air gone dry without dew

The winds carrying sand that fried

Hot like a Venusian summer

Cold like a Martian winter

Fickle history stopped and rubbished

Its interest in rat number one, two and three

And in the ten billion apes fallen from THEIR tree

Nothing mattered, eternity vanished

ROBERT URBANOSKI — 27 JUNE 2025

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.