The Coarse Future

A woman in the store
Told me the world is getting coarser
And I wasn’t going to disagree with her
After I heard my lit professor say,
“Frodo was ultimately too fucked up to remain in the shire.”

But I’m not going to be the one
Who gives up on the future
I still fill the ice cube trey every morning
And think,
“This is a small investment for my future self”
But some things about the future do disturb me
Like when a piece of the earth’s crust goes missing
And nobody knows why

In the coarse future
The scientist surveys the exposed mantle
And writes in his journal
“Nobody gave a shit until it was gone”