i’ll be god-
dammed if i let a li’l ol’ virus (hell, you can’t even see ‘em!) run my life i’m a free-born, free- bird american i came into this world not wearing a mask & i’m not about to let them take away my constitutional right not to wear a mask now! we the people are exempt from nature: this is america in the anthropocene (i just told my computer to learn to spell “anthropocene.” it’s about time, america) speaking of learning: did you know that fires in the arctic this yr & last released more co2 than those of the last 16 yrs combined? (“you’ve got so much dried-out material, it can burn, and burn, and burn”) did you know that buildings in arctic cities are collapsing from uneven permafrost thaw? (“i’ve heard of dozens of houses falling in, and a few churches. there are multiple graveyards that are falling in, and there’s nothing that anybody can do”) did you know that, in ukraine, “10,399 houses, 9 rural health posts, 15,610 residential yards, 4,546 basements, 7,182 hectares of agricultural land are inundated; 149 km of roads are destroyed & 589 km damaged; 90 bridges are destroyed and 169 bridges are damaged. over 4,000 bank protections are destroyed” due to flooding? did you know the locust swarms have moved from africa as far north as sardinia? did you know that over ⅓ of senegal is bedroughted? that 30% of its drylands are desertified? did you know that in assam, 38 k have been flooded out & hit the road? did you know that the flooding in china has affected more than 11 m people & destroyed over 2 m acres of cropland? that in vietnam, rice farmers work at night, w/headlamps, b/c it’s too hot during day? (“temperature are rising one or two degrees [Celsius] every year”) that the grand canyon is so hot hikers’ boots are melting? hell nah -- i came into this world knowing everything i need to know & you'll never take away my right not to
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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. |