the u.s. presidential election sits
like a stone toad a month out ahead of us or better: green is the path we take between chimeras & garlanded the way, the down-descent into november’s void what void, you ask? well the climate scientist sez: “a second trump term is game over for the climate -- really!” “but it’s never game over,” sez mother gaia, smiling slightly -- “not for me, anyhow . . .” so the beat goes on, the 95 humans killed in floods in nigeria, 1000s homeless & cropless; the ⅓ of all cultivated land in sudan that’s underwater; the dozens of flood victims in afghanistan; the 112 f in central brazil; the 4 m acres incinerated in calif, people fleeing the state; the driest monsoon season ever in nevada & arizona; the 136th day w/triple-digit temps for palm springs; the 20 k record highs nationwide last wk.; the hottest sept. ever in israel -- all of which means, if you liked the pliocene, you’ll love the 2020s. . . . but wait -- you weren’t around in the pliocene epoch — & neither were your ancestors, b/c homo sapiens didn’t exist -- so, if you think of trump as a “throwback,” you have no idea how right you are -- the way, way throwback tuesday november 3, 2020, post- holocene, the pre- humanist party
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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. |