THE END OF THE WORLD

QUINCY SCOTT JONES

The end of the world comes in a small brown box marked US POSTAL FIRST CLASS.
WARNING: CONTENTS MAY CONTAIN THE END OF THE WORLD.  HANDLE 
WITH CARE.  We sit there, facing the end of the world wondering how they fit it in such
a small box.  More importantly, why did the US Postal Service have a designated stamp 
for the end of the world?  Of course, we keep it closed.  Closed, the world is both ending, 
and never ending. Closed, there is closure, seclusion, isolation, as we are each in our 
own world and this world never ends.  So we keep the brown box in our apartment 
pigsty.
  The world is ours, but the end is nigh.  

Quincy Scott Jones earned a Bachelor’s degree from Brown University, a Master’s degree from Temple University, and $100 once working as supermarket clown. With Nina Sharma he co-created the Nor’easter Exchange: a multicultural, multi-city reading series. He is a 2014 VONA alum, currently an MFA candidate at Sarah Lawrence College and his first book, The T-Bone Series, was published by Whirlwind Press in 2009.