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# How to Survive an Apocalypse
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/how-to-survive-an-apocalypse/
- Published: 2020-10-11T19:21:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-14T05:50:48.000Z
- Description: Humanity risks extinction because we love the wrong things too much. I am under no illusions. To love you is to resist oblivion, to laugh at craters.
- Author: Andy
- Tags: poetry

I refuse to die in a bunker, even if  
it’s with you, my dear. I want the  
slow death of struggling for light,

hand in hand, through the tremors  
and the flames. Do you recall when  
we thought things were okay? I am

thankful to live in a time of terror.  
The bomb can go off any moment:  
there are so many triggers, we’ve

lost track of who or what can pull them.  
What do we gain from inner peace?  
Humanity risks extinction because

we love the wrong things too much.  
I am under no illusions. To love you is  
to resist oblivion, to laugh at craters.