Scar left by landslide in Guatemala Thrusday, after hurricane Eta . . . round the bend
over the top the prez sez: “thanks 4 yr service . . . [suck-errrs] . . .” o save us big daddy for we know not what we do but big daddy's dyin’ a cancer . . . beyond the pale past the point of yet another hurricane, but the record’s been set already, already! . . . 29 named storms in atlantic, meanwhile, snowstorm in the n. great plains & prairie provinces breaks some records, then becomes t’storm (w/tornado watch) in midwest but i hate “content” — there is too much content in this historical life, too many happenings happening but when you can’t get in- surance, then you’ll know it’s all for real . . . miami looks like venice but without all the boats; & humans say what they always say about the same things, as in “there was howling wind all night, so you just hear this creepy sound” and “all these cars trying to cross intersections and just getting wrecked” or “huge amounts of water have turned the streets into rivers,” then “glacial melt water is pooling into lakes and causing devastating floods . . . then when water is needed most for irrigation later in the summer, we're seeing shortages . . .” or "i hope people will never get tired of helping us” so “knuckle down for a big clean-up” could be said most anywhere floods in congo; no rain in zimbabwe n. korea admits to storm devastation, n. korea now admids scorching heat; people carrying their bundles of stuff, climbing the hillside or walking the road, clinging to gunwales, covering bodies or yanking debris, wait in the mud by a school for a place on the floor, guatemala, honduras, chiapas, tabasco, cd be anywhere & is
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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. |