if it’s global warming where you live,
it’s global f*ing freezing here: hi yesterday 28 f / norm 57 norm lo 33 / actual 5 - 1 in garden city, breaking the record of +7, set last year: greetings from kansas in the season formerly known as autumn; colder than anchorage, alaska . . . hell, so is alabama; + early snow on top of record rains across the upper midwest, adding to farmers’ misery are you paying attention, alabama? & you, kansas? they’re paying us to keep doing things the way we do them, you know, to keep living the same lives. weird weather, huh. and I know I promise not to talk about arctic sea ice & polar bears & stuff, but that thirty-year time-lapse is about the scariest thing i’ve ever seen . . . & don’t get me started on all the CO2 bacteria put out in warmer temps . . . meanwhile water gushing through the streets of towns in s. italy + 100 kph winds + a tornado or two: “we’ve never” – yeah, I know: you’ve never seen anything like it. there’s a reason for that venice knows: “situazione drammatica”: 85% of the city underwater – hi tides keep getting higher every year – & the right-wing mayor sez “this is the result of climate change” (how do you say “duh” in italian? è 2 più 2 è uguale a 4?) & 1,000 households in england evac’d as flooding spreads; boris finally showed, & heard: “i’m not very happy about talking to you so, if you don’t mind, i’ll just mope on with what I’m doing,” meaning cleaning muck & debris elsewhere: ¼ of reservoirs in anhui province, china empty; & in s. africa, tshwane’s abt out; namibian farmers selling their herds for cheap before drought takes em; over 3800 sq mi. on fire in australia, where summer hasn’t even begun; already burning the sydney suburbs: “how much more are we expected to take?”; you can take as much as you like, mate: as the stoics said, if the room’s too full of smoke . . . & rainforest in borneo burns & rangeland in botswana . . . weird weather, duh
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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. |