Converse Conservation Autoconversation

Earth, where eight billion people
Live alone, seems a good place

To introduce the small calm
Created by solitude,

Slowly increasing doses,
Weaning people off people,

All the voices that keep each
Lonely, thinking together

About how awful it is
To keep on living alone.

Humans overwhelmed by talk
Become estranged from their thoughts

And senses. Cacophony
Authors alienation.

But the problem with our plan
Is that there’s not enough room

On the planet, unless they
Spaced themselves so evenly

As animals they’d all die.
That, and the fact that we here

Suggesting solitude are
Among those voices ourselves.