A Final Argument over God, Alternatively Titled “Meno-
pause,” Alternatively Alternatively Titled “For Nathan”

Tara Ventura

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The New York Times said that South Korea said that North Korea has fired two 
more missiles and I think for the second -but definitely not last- time today about 
how it’ll all be over soon and The New York Times won’t report on climate change 
or missiles anymore because no one will be left waiting to read it.

I’m sad -as much as I hate to admit it- at the thought of  an earth without polar bears 
and bamboo and my junky car and especially me and you -but only together- in it. 
But then I think back to when you told me that the world, this earth, will adapt. It 
will survive without us and without god and you or me -together or not- because that 
is what it was made to do.

It’s not over, it’s just changing -for the better- and trying to survive like the rest of  us, 
“eradication” she screams, “let me.”