Those Old Mayan Guys

by K1 (aka Chris Kermiet)

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Those Old Mayan Guys
Poem-of-the-month, July 2023, @
poemofthemonth.us
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Those Old Mayan Guys have a lot of cred.
It must be because they're so long dead.
Those calendar makers — they didn't have clocks.
They measured time in incredibly long blocks.
5125 years, 133 days,
from the beginning of creation to the end of this phase
when the calendar stops. What happens then?
A new beginning? Or just the end? ....

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released July 1, 2023
Predictions of the End of the World have become more frequent in the last 50 years (yearly since 1972 – see the Wikipedia entry (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events).

2012 was a banner year for End of the World predictions. Those old Mayan Guys led the way. The Mayan calendar ran out at the end of the 13th Baktun, December 21, 2012. This poem was written then, and I thought it deserved a spot as poem-of-the-month. Mainly because the world seems closer to ending any day now. We may either cook or choke. Maybe there's another poem there, but I don't have as much cred as old dead Mayan Guys

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K1 Denver, Colorado

K1 (aka Chris Kermiet) has had several careers in his lifetime: as a jazz performer and arranger, a rock drummer and record producer, a traditional dance caller and teacher (contras, squares, English Country Dance), and as a composer (primarily electronic and choral music). He's been writing poems since his early 20's, and has been putting them online, one per month, for the last 7 years. ... more