"My Own Grain of Sand", a little poem by Dave Pereyra

I?
I am
as an ant
glaring petulantly at the
heavens bellowing in its tiny
insectoid voice a defiant cry of

HEAR ME! I AM IMPORTANT! I MATTER!

and waving all six of its
micrometer-long legs in an
intimidating show of its
futile might in
the face
of

the infinite cosmos

with its numberless stars

and endless gulfs of nothing
and everything

and I am as
an ant with
my tiny
voice

by
which I
mean to say
I'm off to vote.

6 November, Los Angeles