Are we ready -- is the ingenuous, dis-perhaps,
Question that gets lobbed in by an underpaid
Carnival worker when the undermaintained
Machine that will put lunches out to pasture
Is going, ready or not, to send your individual
Personal notions of readiness, to a place that
Does not understand self-determination
Thusly, heretofore, We legally cannot
Prepare Us, you understand. All you
Can do is watch the television specials
That show the people who are paranoid
Or too wealthy to hide, digging deep holes
And buying solar panels, just in case
Space civilization does not earn
Enough extra cash to buy off
That one government, who
Was ready for the end of things
And took its citizens down the path
Of most resistance to a voltage that
Still charges the batteries of We
Because everyone else has run
Out of electricity; We don't
Do power planting alone
Roman Ryan 