Six Billion People

And all of you so beautiful

I want to bring you home with me

to sit close on the couch.

My invitation inserted in six billion bottles,

corked with bark from the final forest

and dropped in the ocean of my longing.

We would speak the language of no words,

pass the jug of our drunken joy

at being babies growing into death.

Sometimes, I know, life is stupid, pointless,

beside the point, but here’s the point —

maybe we would fall

in love, settle down together,

share the wine, the bills,

the last of the oxygen and the remote.