Because of our stupidity,
we, i.e. humanity,
will become extinct
sooner than we think.

Gone for good
all our bad
but also
all our good,

e.g. poetry
of the British Isles:

Why did

John Agard, Simon Armitage, Chérie Taylor Battiste, Samuel Beckett, Emily Berry, Lewis Carroll, Geoffrey Chaucer, Kayo Chingonyi, John Clare, John Cooper Clarke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Julia Donaldson, John Dryden, Carol Ann Duffy, Helen Dunmore, Thomas Hood, Helen Ivory, Kathleen Jamie, Linton Kwesi Johnson, John Keats, Cecilia Knapp, Theresa Lola, Hugh MacDiarmid, Roger McGough, Ian McMillan, Máighréad Medbh, Paul Muldoon, Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, Alice Oswald, Mervyn Peake, Rebecca Perry, Sylvia Plath, Michael Rosen, Siegfried Sassoon, Jo Shapcott, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lemn Sissay, Tennyson, Thom Gunn, A A Milne, A B Jackson, A E Housman, A F Cross, A Flowerdew, A K Blakemore, A S J Tessimond, A S T Fisher, A Y Campbell, Abraham Cowley, Abraham Fleming, Abraham Fowler, Abraham Fraunce, Abraham Hartwell, Abraham Holland, Abraham Nahum Stencl, Adam Rudden, Adda Fras, Adelaide Anne Procter, Adelaide Phillpotts, Adomnán, Adrian Henri, Adrian Mitchell, Adrian Stokes, Ælnoth of Canterbury, Aeneas Francon Williams, Aeronwy Thomas, Afra Atiq, Afshan d’Souza-Lodhi, Agnes Bulmer, Agnes Lyon, Ahsan Akbar, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Áine Ní Ghlinn, Aithbhreac Inghean Coirceadal, Al Alvarez, Alan Baker, Alan Bold, Alan Brownjohn, Alan Gillis, Alan Hodge, Alan Jackson, Alan Jenkins, Alan Riach, Alan Sillitoe, Alan Spence, Alaric Alexander Watts, Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, Alasdair Gray, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Alasdair Maclean, Alasdair Paterson, Alastair McIntosh, Alastair Reid, Alec Finlay, Aleister Crowley, Alex Grant, Alexander Anderson, Alexander Arbuthnot, Alexander Bald, Alexander Balfour, Alexander Barclay, Alexander Brome, Alexander Garden, Alexander Geddes, Alexander George Craig, Alexander Gray, Alexander Hume, Alexander McLachlan, Alexander Montgomerie, Alexander Ross, Alexander Scott, Alexander Smith, Alexander Tait, Alfred Austin, Alfred Bate Richards, Alfred Beesley, Alfred Domett, Alfred Hayes, Alfred Noyes, Alfred Williams, 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Wheathill, Annie Louisa Walker, Annie Walke, Anno Birkin, Anthony Anaxagorou, Anthony Chute, Anthony Copley, Anthony Hammond, Anthony Joseph, Anthony Munday, Antoine Ó Raifteiri, Antony Dunn, Aogán Ó Rathaille, Aoife Lyall, Aonghas MacNeacail, Ap Vychan, Aphra Behn, Arabella Moreton, Archibald Bruce, Archibald Crawfurd, Arji Manuelpillai, Armand D’Angour, Arofan, Arthur Argo, Arthur Brooke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Cravan, Arthur Gorges, Arthur Graeme West, Arthur Hallam, Arthur Henry King, Arthur Hugh Clough, Arthur Johnston, Arthur St John Adcock, Arthur Waley, Artúr Dall Mac Gurcaigh, Athairne Mac Eoghain, Audrey Beecham, Augusta Theodosia Drane, Augusta Webster, Augustus Young, Aurelian Townshend, Austin Clarke, Aviva Dautch, Avraham Shlonsky, B T Hopkins, Barbarina Brand, Barnabe Barnes, Barnabe Googe, Barry Cole, Barry MacSweeney, Bartholomew Griffin, Basil Bunting, Beccán mac Luigdech, Bedo Aeddren, Bedo Brwynllys, Bedo Hafesp, Bedo Phylip Bach, Ben Jonson, Ben Maier, Ben 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Morrison, David Rees Griffiths, David Rorie, David Samwell, David Sillar, David Sweetman, David Tait, David Wheatley, David William Paynter, David Wingate, David Wright, Deio ab Ieuan Du, Denis Devlin, Denis Florence MacCarthy, Denis Pyramus, Denise Riley, Dennis Embleton, Dennis O’Driscoll, Derek Mahon, Derek Stanford, Deric Bolton, Derick Thomson, Dermot Bolger, Deryn Rees-Jones, Des Dillon, Dewi Hefin Diana Hendry, Dic Goodman, Dic Jones, Dick David, Dick Davis, Dick Higgins, Digby Mackworth Dolben, Dilys Cadwaladr, Dilys Rose, Dinah Craik, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Dolf Wyllarde, Dollie Radford, Dom Moraes, Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna, Dominic Cooper, Don Paterson, Donagh MacDonagh, Dónal Meirgeach Mac Conmara, Donald Davie, Donald MacDonald, Donnchadh MacRath, Dora Greenwell, Dorian Cooke, Doris Lessing, Dorothea Primrose Campbell, Dorothea Smartt, Dorothy Margaret Stuart, Dorothy Miles, Dorothy Molloy, Dorothy Nimmo, Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, Dorothy Wellesley, Douglas Clark, Douglas Dunn, 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amongst others,
even bother?

But what particularly gives me the pip
is there was precious little point
in penning this poem.