New Planet – Same Earthlings
(Hour 7 – Half Marathon 2021)

Thanks to those with a ton of money
We have learned how to escape to space
To settle on planets never before
Exposed to human life
We take with us
Not only our possessions
But our predispositions
Our immune systems
And other life forms
From earth
That feed our ecosystem
My family landed on the planet
Known as cvd 2021
Since it was discovered in 2021
Before the great surge
That wiped out one quarter of the population
Vaccination worked to a point
But new variants were immune
To the initial vaccines
New vaccine, new variant, new vaccine
And of course
There were people vaccine averse
And there were countries unable to vaccinate
Enough people on a timely basis
In 2092 we took off
For this better place
Millions of us
In suspended animation
On the Bezos-Amazon 5
A dome created by Tesla
Protected us with an earthly atmosphere
The earth after years of interplanetary emigration
Would never be the same
Those that remained
Continued to believe in a magical explanation
Some of my friends
Went to a neighboring
Planet named the new normal
These friends lived in a subdivision
That is exactly the same
As the one I now live in
Earth flowers and trees in the yard
We communicate through satellite technology
Through the dead expanse of space
But we are hearing of strange diseases
Once more causing a panic among the survivors
I am not sure if these diseases escaped from a lab
Set up on our new planet to experiment with life
Or are native to our new planet.

The political divide remains
Between science based decisions
To beat the disease
And those interested in blaming someone
Other than themselves
A new pattern is emerging
Vaccine, variant, new vaccine, new variant
There are those who refuse to learn
Where we came from
And why we left.

In the middle of town
Next to the Broad Street Bull
Is a Wall Street Golden Calf.
At noon, every day
Several thousand people
Go there to dance and pray.
I have a video if you want to see it.