The icy Sahara, 1/13/21. Karim Bouchetata/Bav Media (via NY Post) inauguration day in the u.s.a. --
every four years like clockwork, like leap year tho usually not inside a fortified green zone w/25k troops on hand -- the new president has a plan (kinda sorta) to deal w/climate chaos, & he has two good years to do it before the other side is voted in. meanwhile in s. borneo, worst floods in 50 yrs; 63k humans displaced, 21 dead, 45k acres of food wiped out; 32 dead on java — landslides (on top of an earthquake); dozens missing; rescuers using smell to find the victims. paper quotes the president, not the survivors. houses submerged in filipino villages; another 100-yr storm in queensland; a bolivian village w/water to the eaves; “floods wash away cars in gweru, zimbabwe” (and elsewhere); more floods in n. of england (yorkshire) & remember all the locusts in africa? they’re back in botswana & namibia: “heavy rains create conducive conditions” & remember the abnormal heat & fires in siberia? now they’re having abnormal cold: -73 f in one town; “snow also blanketed parts of saudi arabia, which saw the mercury hit 28 f”; below freezing in sahara, too & the santa ana winds knock over semis in so cal; 270k w/o power; multiple fires (favorite name: the “freedom fire”) & the 7 hottest years on earth have been the last 7 years & the oceans absorbed 20 sextillion joules of heat in 2020, “equal to the energy from 10 hiroshima atomic bombs being released every second of the year” (man, that’s hot!) sez u.s. ctr for atmospheric research dude any wonder people prefer a shadowy, far-reaching conspiracy by other people to all this mayhem? o, your powerful presidency; o, your pathetic poems. good luck, joe.
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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. |