this is not
an emergency, all this climate stuff. if it were, we’d know it: the streets would be flooded, the hills would be burning, there’d be climate refugee camps; and our governments would declare an emergency, right? sure, that stuff happens in other places – those sh*thole countries mr. trump talks about (o yeah and japan) (ok and australia) but it can’t happen here; can't be happening; or if it can, it won’t be for hundreds or decades of years, long after those making the decisions are dead – otherwise, why would the scientists always say “by the end of the century”? no- body will be around by the end of the century, except people who are infants today, and they don’t much care. they’re not blocking traffic! & it’s not like there’s no good news: it turns out, stormquakes don’t pose a danger to humans. hooray!, right? also: temps in lawrence, ks., u.s. hover around normal now: hi 71, avg 68 lo 36, avg 43; & even if you’re not so lucky, you can still feel happy for us. sure there’s some bad news: another bomb cyclone smashes n.e. u.s. – this after the nor’easter last week – ½ million w/o electricity in new england & beyond; & old england facing the kind of severe thunderstorms more often seen around here; but this is not an “emergency,” it’s more like an “issue”; this is not pervasive, these isolated incidents. & this is not a poem, this is a verse-chronicle about a poem – the poem being written every day, the poem of our climate
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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. |