are you a weed?
wow. wow. what is that down in the roots & tubers of your alveoli? nothing can auto- correct for this not carbon capture, not hydroxywhatevah. i feel so so nostalgic for rationality. “this can’t be happening. it’s not real,” sez the dying covid patient. no weeds ever. the multiple typhoons in the philipines can’t be happening; the stationary downpour in nicaragua is not real; the human bodies they’re digging out in honduras are maybe mannequins; the freezing typhoon in vladivostok can’t be happening; the record rain in seoul is not real; the displaced people in java don’t exist; the locusts in victoria can’t be there; the tennis-ball-sized hailstones in s. africa definitely are not real; 90-degree temps in the u.s. can’t be happening in nov.; the new wildfires in california & nevada are not real — just ask the 1k humans who were not evac’d; 2,556 additional people did not die of heat stroke in britain this summer; the record hi-lo in demark wed. nite never happened (even the weather news is fake!); the melting subsea permafrost & shallow methane hydrates bubbling up in concentrations of atmospheric methane above the fields (86x more potent than co2 as green- house gas) reaching 16-32ppm is so so not real b/c so so boring, & is so not the thing that’s going to kill us all; and most of all, remember: this verse-chronicle will never ever come to an end.
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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. |