I offer some lines and phrases from the story-poem Stardust by Hisham Bustani.

Tired of turning the dials of history.

I look at them: they are motionless and shackled, sap sucked dry, faces covered with imbecilic smiles. Who are these people…

(First answer)

Physical systems change…from highly ordered to more disordered.

Entropy

The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.

“Crazy guy,” someone said, hurrying past.

“Soil that is fertile, – and you are paving with asphalt and concrete,…so that you can facilitate the flow of your garbage, the dissemination of your abominable noise.”

(Second answer)

Human beings define their reality through suffering and misery.

Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment. Humans do not.

Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.

You’re a plague.

Viruses.

You think you are intelligent creatures?

You are addicted to petroleum, uranium, electromagnetic waves.

You sleep in your own radioactive shit.

We’re going to be the death of the planet before we’ve done dying.

(Third answer)

“We are nothing but a handful of stardust.” – Carl Sagan

Two policemen overpowered him and dragged him off,…

“Just a crazy man,” a woman told her neighbor…

(Fourth answer)

The large digital advertising screens kept flipping overhead: You deserve more; it isn’t rocket science: increase your investment and grow your profit; We can make your dreams come true: live the American dream right here; Only three days left for you to win…

But he felt he was running in place.

He was sure he was closer.

The air was heavy with the breath of so many others. He couldn’t tell how many.

“Focus on what’s in front of you booms a voice from overhead speakers.” “To make progress you must mind your own business.”

He murmurs under his breath. “It’s just me, and hell is other people.”

(Fifth and last answer)

“Death is not a fearful thing. It’s living that’s cursed… We committed an act of revolutionary suicide.” – Jim Jones

NOTE: If you’d like to read the entire poem, Stardust, CLICK HERE.