3/12/2018 0 Comments The Very Last Drop by Holly DayThe Very Last Drop on the last day, when the world finally ends, I hope I’m sitting in my car, driving somewhere nice, thoughts of the day ahead filling my head with anticipatory joy. I hope my favorite song is playing on the radio, and I hope that I have just enough time to sing along all the way to the end of the song. if the world was to truly end on a perfect note, then I would have a cup of coffee by my side hot but not too hot, and just enough to last until the very last second. I don’t really care how it all ends, so long as I don’t know it’s coming, so long as I don’t have to think about it, have to prepare for it, have to dread it in any way. I don’t want to live through global starvation, a prolonged, senseless war, weeks of television shows featuring children dying somewhere else. I want the end to be something nobody saw coming but the sandwich-board prophets, standing crazy on street corners, waving their dirty fists up at the sky as if some god up there was glaring down at the earth, making maniacal plans to destroy everybody and everything we’ve taken so comfortably for granted. I want to end up like those mammoths dug out of rock ice in Russia found completely intact, flash frozen, with food still in their mouths caught by disaster in mid-chew, mid-thought completely surprised. Bio: Holly Day has taught writing classes at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, since 2000. Her poetry has recently appeared in Big Muddy,The Cape Rock, New Ohio Review, and Gargoyle, and her published books include Walking Twin Cities, Music Theory for Dummies, Ugly Girl, and The Yellow Dot of a Daisy. She has been a featured presenter at Write On, Door County (WI), North Coast Redwoods Writers' Conference (CA), and the Spirit Lake Poetry Series (MN). Her newest poetry collections, A Perfect Day for Semaphore (Finishing Line Press) and I'm in a Place Where Reason Went Missing (Main Street Rag Publishing Co.) will be out late 2018.
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