Everyone asks me
Why?
So many ways to die
Starvation, eco-devastation
Fires and shot tires
Pistols and pesticides
But that’s a short list. There are
Ten thousands of diseases
Cancers and strokes
Failing hearts and viral darts
Rickettsia and dementia
Yet yet you can fall three kilometers off a smashed plane
Land in the Amazon
And live
Flee into freezing fjords
Swim a mile
And live
Get pushed off the pyramids
And live
Life likes life
We are born to live
There are billions whose
Memory of memories
Sings like our own
For all is information
Space, Matter, Time
Life is information that survives
Typhoons and tsunamis
Blasts of missiles
Deaths of suns
And when it asks what you did with yours
Expects no answer