"Finally! A photo of something pleasant!" Cherry season in Tokyo. (SoraNews 24) “i can’t be asked,”
said the irishwoman. “that means ‘i can’t be bothered.’” as in “i can’t be asked -- I have troubles enough of my own!” wch is not to say we don’t care abt the 90% ↑ of kenyan people in need of immediate aid (1.4 m) due to “poor performance” by the rainfall season (i.e., drought), or the 2.7 m somali people in the same high-and-dry boat, w/sub-par rainy season predicted it just means we’ve got things to tend to ourselves like the entire u.s. power grid -- the am. soc. of civil engineers sez it’s vulnerable to weather shocks like that seen in texas last month (one report says 57 dead, another, 80); much of that infrastructure is older than i am (!), w/a lot more people using it now; & fossil fuels still = 62% of electric production (they being most vulnerable to being freezing frozen froze) but tomorrow will worry abt itself; today’s troubles enough for now, as the good book sez whc is helpful, depending on how you define “today” -- e.g., last weekend: sandstorms engulfed mecca & medina, making them look like — well, someplace hot and red — & china, too: beijing a.q.i. at 999 (elsewhere “off the scale”), & all across mongolia, from west to east & from arabia to ulan bator everyone sez, “i’ve never seen anything like it” but “i can’t be asked b/c i’m not them & don’t live there not that i don’t feel for them, of course, but it can’t happen here” record temps in mexico, s.e., esp.: up to 113 f; & the gov. of jalisco sez: “the dam that supplies the north of guadalajara is total- mente seca (dry), it no longer gives us even a drop of water” (“why do all those people keep coming to the border??”) but some good global heating news: the cherry-blossom season in tokyo started march 14 -- earliest on record -- that is something beautiful so we look at it & the kitten videos so it lightens our day but the poor ye have always with ye so there’s plenty of time to deal with it, tomorrow or tomorrow, but today we can’t be asked
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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. |