into the little known

Did you know that fungi 
are the ghosts of ants 
that led selfish lives 
did you know that stars 
are holes punched in night 
by the human glance 
of angel eyes, once
they saw how right 
they were to fall.
Yet how short the stay, 
and cruel the price. 
Did you know in the seas 
there are mermaids still?
they assembled themselves 
from huge garbage drifts 
like Sargasso seas, except 
plastic and what should have
been landfill. Did you know we
can make up all of it? If we start
far from home, by the time we get
here, at least half might fit.