The Closest Thing
My Polaroid photo
From a backyard bonfire
Will be one of the five things on Earth to survive the collision.
It will drift through space
See the Milky Way
And wind up in the hands of a non-carbon based being.
They’ll put it on a shelf
In the closest thing they have to a museum
And marvel at the shape of my nose.
But the fire
Yes the fire
Will make them dream.
