Poem: Escape

By Jack Brummet

Some of us try astral projection.

The rest of us leave in dinghies, bikes, and cars,

And race down highways, expressways,
Streets and boulevards.

A continent of smoking skull orchard

Recedes in the rear view mirror.
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The end of the line. . .

Some expected ends of the world, including at least one that did not actually trigger an apocalypse:

The Arrival of Hindu's avatar of Krishna in 2003
Gaia 2012 - A Sweden-based site explaining Carl Johan Calleman's "Venus Passage" discoveries due in 2012. However, Calleman has now decided that the Great Cycle will actually end on 28th October 2011

The End of the Mayan Calendar After Dec. 21, 2012
Planetary Alignment Sept. 8, 2040

Variously predicted chains of successive earthquakes
The End of the Muslim Calendar, 2076
The end of the Jewish Calendar, 2240
The 13 Month Calendar

End of the world songs:

Waiting for the end of the world - Elvis Costello
End of the World (album)- Aphrodite's Child
End Of The World - COLD
End of the World - The Cure
The End of the World - Skeeter Davis
End of the world - Ayumi Hamasaki
The End of the World - Angela
End of the World Party (Just in Case) (album) - Medeski Martin & Wood
Until the End of the World - U2
When the World Ends - Dave Matthews Band
Happy End of the World (album) - Pizzicato Five
Smile, It's The End of the World - Hawk Nelson
The Light at the End of the World - My Dying Bride
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.

End of the world books and films:

The End of the World (novel)- Camille Flammarion's 1893 science fiction novel La Fin du Monde.
End of the World (film), a film by John Hayes
The End of the World (animation), a viral Flash animation depicting the modern nuclear crisis
The End of the World - the second episode of the 2005 television series Doctor Who
The End of the World, a film by Verdens Undergang
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - a novel by Haruki Murakami
Le Phare du bout du monde ("The Light at the Edge of the World" - a novel by Jules Verne
The Light at the Edge of the World, a film version of the novel by Verne
Until the End of the World - movie by Wim Wenders
Panic in Year Zero! (AKA End of the World) - a 1962 film

Places now or once thought to actually be the end of the world:

Cape Finisterre, Spain

Kent, Washington
Madagascar
Montauk, a beautiful town on the end of Long Island, New York
New Zealand
Verdens Ende (literally "End of the world") south of Oslo, Norway
Yamal Peninsula, in northern Russia
Patagonia
The lighthouse at Isla de los Estados is better known as Faro del fin del mundo ("Lighthouse at the end of the world")
Timbuktu, as in the phrase "from here to Timbuktu", at the end of a Saharan trade route
The South Pole

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