The floor is wet, my feet are cold. I can feel the ship sinking, then remember Our tree outside, The one we planted together. The lake now embraces it’s trunk….
Tag Archives: climate change
Is it getting hotter? #1, a poem.
….needy, needy people,sweating in thesun. The wateris drying up. Dams and reservoirscannot holdwhat isn’t there. Your AC works just fine…. Until the lightsGoes out.
Is it getting dryer? A poem
Can lakes disappear, water as far as the eye can see? If lake Michigan drys up, will we see the Ella Fitzgerald? And Lake Meade has a dirty bath ring, lower by stories. Which would become scarce first, the water or the electricity? What of Vegas? But no one seems worried.
Basic vs. Premium, a poem
All the cows and sheep, All the grains and wool are gone. Then we ate wolves and crows, then all that was left was carbon. We could not eat our money, I mean, we ain’t animals! Basic carbon is for the poor, Premium is for the wealthy. Basic carbon looks like two-day old oatmeal. PremiumContinue reading “Basic vs. Premium, a poem”
Smokin’ Rome, a poem
A man askedif I would helpwith the bucketbrigade tosave Rome fromburning. I said no, andand litmy cigarette fromamong it’s flames. I smiled atoothless grin, ~puff~
Liferaft in the Abyss 