1st day of class: our chancellor
sez “i’m shocked, shocked to find that partying is going on here!” -- in response to boozy frat boys (w/boozy house mother) slob- bering around in front of mother house, sans mask sans distance sans everything . . . “people believe what they want to believe,” as caesar knew (which helped him conquer gaul which i have never done, but here is how i’m feeling: residents flee as gulf coast sees possible tandem hurricanes giving ‘rocket fuel’ to possible storms sea ice 1.1 m acres burn in 9 days historic scale death & destruction in haiti & dominican ‘fires of hell’ another disastrous year for earth’s out-of-control threats sea ice ‘my eco-anxiety is at an all-time high’ fossil fuel industry’s political power for a nightmare from space 6 ft. 250k under evac order up to half the world’s oceans migrating almost a month earlier ice sheets faster flames hellish combo for prisons fire, pestilence, floods & storms will kill us all economically feasible hottest temperature reliably recorded on earth tonnes of sea ice sheet 2nd-largest in calif. history ‘driest i’ve seen’ can i do anything abt any of this? write a poem in the shape of a tree? put arnica on the leaves? to salve our covid consciences or salvage consciousness (i need a news fast, fast, b/c i don’t want to believe
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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. |