Art: Marie Dashkova, @melodyphoto
MARX WAS RIGHT
History repeats itself
as tragedy,
then settles
into farce.
And so was Joyce
slogging through
his own nightmare,
and Napoleon
battling
a fable agreed upon.
Which leads me
to conclude
the last human sound
before the galaxy
consumes itself
won’t be a whimper
or a scream.
Rather, gasping stars
will hear
our groans.
Self-important
as we think we are,
we’ll grasp life
was a fidgety dream
fabulists devised
to entertain our sleep.
About the author:
From Assistant Professor of English to management trainer to retiree, Carolyn Martin has journeyed from New Jersey to Oregon to discover Douglas firs, months of rain, and dry summers. Her poems and book reviews have appeared in publications throughout North America and the UK, and her third poetry collection, Thin Places, was released by Kelsay Books in Summer 2017.
Art: Marie Dashkova, @melodyphoto
In the artist’s words:
My name is Marie Dashkova; I am 25, and I was born in Moscow, Russia. I currently live here. I started to be interested in photography at the age of 12 when I was studying photo-shop to create avatars and images for sites, so I decided to make selfies using old Sony video-camera that had photo options. I was inspired a lot; it became my hobby; now I could use not only images from the internet and photos by different artists, but I could also create something by myself.