the universe

a night bright like the sun from green beer and grass.
I think of the pinwheel galaxy 20,870,000 light years from earth.
I take another drink,
there's not much happening here.
there is an exploding star at the end of every word,
a black hole at the center of every galaxy.
in our galaxy like in theirs,
their must be life somewhere inside.
but as the universe expands and the galaxies move further and further apart,
eventually, all stars will die and their remnants will speckle the interstellar sky
of surviving earths like dark glowing embers.
but then they too will die and the universe will be cold and dark and icy
and jesus will be dead and so will jazz(still), and heineken beer
but at least I'll finish mine before that happens and maybe then
I could stop thinking about such stupid shit.