facebook “blocked”
(a.k.a. censored, cancelled) this here verse chronicle, b/c somebody it "includes content that other people on fb have reported as abusive” & of course won’t say what or why (that’s how it works -- i’m joseph h but i feel like josef k i could speculate . . . (too “political”? too much reality?) f.b. offers its own “climate science info center,” where you can read all about it (all the news you need to know) w/lots of articles to choose from (all from u.s., but we’re english-language realityville & nothing lies beyond our shores) speaking of which, juneau, ak. just broke its 24 hr record for rainfall (5.08”), w/ ensuing floods, landslides burying homes, 6 missing, etc. -- & juneau & s.e. alaska suffered drought last year; dec. wildfire in so cal: 25k people evac’d, 6400 acres burned so far (“i got a text message from my neighbor saying, ‘are you okay? your street is on fire’”) no, not o.k. not one bit. meanwhile, in notamerica: 3.7m humans suffered “food insecurity” (meaning “hunger”?) in guatemala, even before the back-to-back cyclones; “we were screwed before the pandemic,” sez 16-yr-old damian ramirez. “& now everything is getting worse”; rainstorm, winds, lightning blaze “trail of destruction” in mozambique; & no rain for a yr in s. madagascar: they can’t even grow cactus fruit; “my children didn’t (they mix eat for 3 days 7 then (white clay died, because i, (with tamarind their mother, (& eat it to did not manage (fill the belly to feed them. i came back in the evening, & i saw the body of my child w/his eyes open” this verse chronicle shd come w/a trigger warning, i guess, but the whole world is a trigger the rain keeps coming: in vietnam, where the crops are ruined; in thailand, where 371k of farmland rots under water; in java, where a 4 ft wall of water rushed down a valley, villagers running away; in split, croatia, where the streets “are mostly underwater” & “heatwaves are killing a record number of people,” sez the economist (mag) but i don’t do long-term trends i don’t do arctic i don’t do animals (you’re welcome) i don’t do hate speech i don’t do porn really, i don’t do politics opec has a fb page; so does exxonmobil; as does american cattlemen. maybe i’ll report them as abusive, since they’ve caused the stuff that stuffs this verse chronicle so why not go to the source & block the whole chaotic mess?
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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. |