They say the world is teetering on a point
we’re tipping
as an aurora rinses the sky
penguins waddle across the Titanic’s downfall
i remember in the movie we watched on the plane
my heart beat fast
first to die were the boiler room shitkickers
shovelling coal fast into the teeth
of the giant engine room
but they’re only the seen ones …
not the arctic indigenous tribes
that the scientist talked about
(they fascinated us)
who tried to visit ancestors graves
instead got trapped by melting ice
still
light hanging onto the rim of the earth
like a saucer
a perpendicular egg caul
while on the other side
Rinehart and Morrison snorting coke in the same glitzy ballroom toilet
that last line was designed
to plunge a needle into the veined aquifer
and extract liquid power