Poem for the week, 11 December 2022
A roundelay delaying extinction
They said: we don’t cause the weather, don’t buy it;
fossil fuels are forever, don’t be a reformer.
After they lied, the truth started a riot
against worldwide environment trauma,
but they filled their oil drums and then denied it
while the weather got warmer and warmer.
After they lied, the truth started a riot
against worldwide environment trauma.
Fish, fowl, and insects die off in this climate
but when we said so we were told that’s just drama,
as they twiddled their thumbs and then denied it
while the weather got warmer and warmer.
Fish, fowl, and insects die off in this climate
but when we said so we were told that’s just drama.
The heat will decimate most of our diet
leaving nothing but mosquito korma,
but they fiddled their sums and then denied it
while the weather got warmer and warmer.
The heat will decimate most of our diet
leaving nothing but mosquito korma,
all the hot summer facts cannot belie it:
our present lives soon will be former.
Still, they loaded their guns and then denied it
while the weather got warmer and warmer.
from The awkward geometry of a warming oblate spheroid (buy here)
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