six o’clock TV hour

the end of the world as we know it
and I
think we are
supposed to feel
fine

though there are endings and are endings
and in this
it’s
relative
since
a part might have an ending
so
that something might can begin

and
all our lives have stops and starts with
passages inside that are
the length
we
need

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“the end of the world as we know it” and feeling fine are found in a song (eponymous with the line) performed by R.E.M., written by these folk—Peter Lawrence Buck, Michael E. Mills, John Michael Stipe, William Thomas Berry—and I got the information I didn’t know (also the poem title) from https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rem/itstheendoftheworldasweknowitandifeelfine.html

photo by Lance Grandahl on Unsplash
so the water may begin