Again the Rent

I paid the rent today, and one more month

Passes before the grave as I rotate gravitation-

Ally around the black hole center of The Milky

Way and Sagittarius A*. We, here on Earth,

Rarely if ever consider our positioning hanging

Out here between two spiral galactic arms in

The vastness of universal space. And as I wash

My face and brush my hair, as I fastidiously

Prune some scraggly whiskers from my beard,

I am gobsmacked with the profound naivety

Of my thinking—the rent I have just remitted

Like me is rotational. So, round and round I go,

Month after month, year after year, not being

In actuality all that far from the galactic center

Of things—Sagittarius A*, home sweet home.

And as for the rent, I say (Ha!), a mere pittance

(cosmically speaking), such a laughably insigni-

Ficant price to pay. Think of the light years it
Took us to find this place.

Chris Hanch 2-3-17