The Sahara Starts Now

there are those moments that seem to be
leading us on the way to civilization collapse

like when the bus drops us off across the street from the mall
and we have to walk across miles of asphalt to get home

dodging SUVs the size of things
that ate our ancestors

and this new sun isn’t the one I knew as a kid
and the faces of people have the same hardness of bedouins

to us it’s a desperate sort of survival/happiness going on