“c’mon, joe, admit it:
you have an apocalypse complex: you like all the fire & brimstone & brimming floods & rockslides, don’t you? you’re into ‘disaster porn,’ no?” which is another way of saying, “hey mister! can’t you see you’re scarin’ the kids?? shut it!” the whole globe grows into a great big trigger warning: beware beware: you will not hear what you want to hear: such as: l.a. county records hottest-ever temperature ((ever) 121 f); + many hottest sept. temps -- “kiln-like heat” — & warnings to cut back electrical use to avoid blackouts; multiple wildfires flame throughout the state — a “gender- reveal party” sparked one, w/“smoke-emitting device” designed to shoot pink or blue smoke signals to convey gender of expected child (welcome to the world little one -- a revelation indeed!); meanwhile, near yó-sem-might: 46k acres burn; campers, hikers trapped; 200 rescued via natl. guard helicopters; fire makes py-ro-cum-u-lous cloud system: spawns lightning + 5 tornadoes (“first-of-its-kind fire tornado warning”), & “these trends will continue as the planet continues to warm,” sez the expert (again) meanwhile, denver had its latest 100f temp day for any year ever, sat.; 96 right now, but snow tomorrow; (funny weather . . . huh?) not to mention: 3554 sq mi of rain- forest burned (so far) this year in amazonia; plus 3 mo worth of rain fell in 24 hrs in senegal; and karachi is drowning in sewage, post-flooding; while 1000s in rift valley kenya still flooded out; “scores of villages” in punjab & sindh inundated, withal; & odisha rice harvest rotted out underwater: “the floods have completely shattered the rural economy,” sez farmer sarhat saroo; “with the deluge ruining our livelihood, we now stare at a bleak future”; & in jordan, they don’t go outside, not cause of virus, but heat: longest & hottest wave recorded: 9 days of 100+f — w/119f friday, saturday in aqaba -- damn near hot as l.a.! (equal-opportunity heating: israel in day 8 of record spell; & hottest-ever temp (109f) in both halves of jerusalem) & that “disaster porn” thing? the folks in lake charles, la. don’t think you’re getting enuf: "i am begging, i am pleading for americans not to forget about lake charles,” sez the mayor, after hurricane laura wrecked the city of 1/4m souls; “the national coverage -- it’s like it’s forgotten already” which, of course, it has . . . "bon chance & sauve qui peut," lake charles!" yet this here verse-chronicle records such things for all time, as much as to say: yes, children, this really did happen once upon a time -- except that the children will face much worse; they may not be impressed; armageddon has an end, in revelations -- but this apocalypse just keeps on giving out, revealing more, saying, "wanna go?"
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Kristin Prevallet Author/Editor
I'm a writer & teacher in Lawrence, Kansas who actually believes the scientists. I wrote a book of poems called Of Some Sky that seems to have something to do with all this. |