. . . & the fourth frog thinks
“how could anyone worry about boiling alive at a time like this? there’s a pandemic on! we have more urgent things to think about” (this, before they are “done,” when they don’t think anything) but i am determined to have as much hope as the young folks & act accordingly; although i am determined to write a chronicle as factual as i. when hitler gave a “scorched- earth” order, the officer in the fürerbunker refused; but our embunkered president put fanatikers in place who proceed with the scorching apace, while “scientists consider wild plan to dim the sun to save earth” (i’d like to have dim sum with those dim bulbs on an unsaved earth), while cambridge, mass. will stick warning labels on gas pumps (“the surgeon general has determined that burning fossil fuels,” etc.): one does what one can, based on what one thinks one knows e.g., “underwater heat blob” unfreezing the arctic, un- locking airborne heat blobs so that moscow could be snow-free in dec. last year & toronto just concluded warmest- ever stretch of november temps on sunday, w/almost 8” of snow (most on nov. 22 since 1937) funny weather they’ve been having, huh? things are gettin hella wonky: “roller-coaster” would fit as metaphor, if roller-coasters went underwater for days at a time & it’s what happens after the disaster that’s disastrous: the ash in your drinking water; the sewage- filled water in your streets; your food shortages; people crowded in shelters during a pandemic; 100s of 1000s more shelterless, a future designed by jerry bruckheimer people in somalia walking through waist-high water, floating their stuff on rafts; baghdad streets submerged; in s. sudan, bashir james sez “getting wet wasn’t an issue. currents and crocodiles were” -- & even the old folks can’t remember this much rain . . . (“whatevuh — sh*thole countries” -- after we got finished with them, anyhow) i promise not to be surprised if, once upon a future day, i feel nostalgic for 2020, or feel like it served me well as practice
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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. |