our september rains came,
a week late and only a day, but then everything is late nowadays & too much or too little . . . that’s why farmers feel the pain: 75% of callers to farm aid hotline report x-treme weather-related losses. o western wind . . . & farmer support of trump drops from 85% to 71%, meaning that > ⅔ of u.s. farmers still support him (he said he cd shoot people on 5th av & his supporters wd still support him; turns out, he can shoot his supporters, & his supporters will still support him . . . ) meanwhile california keeps burning: “it’s like god has no sympathy,” sez the lady from santa rosa; zogg & glass: the 2 new fires scorched 10k acres in 1 day; “it gets tiring, it’s becoming a lifestyle,” sez the man from napa co. (wines w/smoky palate & ashy aftertaste) & 188 sq. mi. charred in colorado (after state’s largest-ever fire last mo.), smoking out denver & front range . . . this did not result from climate change -- rather, prolonged drought, record heat waves, & unusually high winds produced it (“summer-like heat” predicted over western u.s. thru october; “well below avg.” e. of rockies) + fires across paraguay & argentina; zombie fires burn continuously in siberian peatlands sat. nite: coldest sept. nite ever in n. ireland; sunday day: warmest autumn day ever in s. finland; freak snowstorm in switz. & austria; freak snowstorm in new zealand; 50k humans stranded (rangpur, bangla.) amidst record-setting downpours; no cause for alarm around here: this is america, where we believe whatever the hell we want to believe: that it’s fake that it won’t hurt me where i am that it’s caused by little green martians that it will all just go away if i don’t pay too much attention, anyway
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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. |