 We ended it all out of boredom in the end. We went the way of the dinosaur Not because of any asteroid or apocalyptic disease Nor because we failed to adapt quickly enough to environmental changes But because we got bored We let the bastards who were just as bored as the rest of us Waved their warheads around like dongs at a bachelorette party Even egging them on calling for starvation sanctions and no fly zones and endless escalations and brinkmanship Because there was nothing new on Hulu Because CNN needed the ratings because they canceled Jerry Springer Because they don't let you smoke anywhere these days Because snarling at Putin made us feel giddy and euphoric in ways. We didn't quite understand what kind of scared us Because our friends stopped letting us masturbate our drama addiction on them Because we shuddered at the thought of a boring world where nations simply get along and collaborate toward the highest interest of all beings Because that wouldn't feed our egoic hungry ghosts Wouldn't give us the exhilarating conflicts. We've been trained to expect by Hollywood Wouldn't distract us from the echoing screams of our early childhood trauma Wouldn't engorge our sex organs and release adrenaline and endorphins and assist us in our Intermittable quest to be anywhere but here We ended it all out of boredom Because we never figured out how to be okay with what is Because we never learned how to let our restlessness drain from our legs and from our minds and Down into the earth which birthed and sustained us Because we can never create enough space to let the beauty in and be uplifted by the sunlight and the bird songs and the Wind in our hair instead of by fighting and hating and selfing and othering a Strange primate species showed up looked around Couldn't quite make sense of the place and checked out and now we are gone Like the tyrannosaurs and the mastodons and the dead stars and the forgotten gods a Foolish mistake made playing foolish games open to Pandora's box labeled no takesies backsies and the rest as they say Was the end of history but hey Brightside At least we're not bored anymore