June 28, 2006

On Reading Emily Dickinson and Seeing An Inconvenient Truth, All in the same weekend

Oh Lord I doth fear
We have made the Earth too hot this year.
Everywhere, the signs are plain to see,
First, glaciers melt like
Niagara Falls,
Then Vegas-by-the-Sea.
I think we should have dialed it back
Before the Pole un-froze
We can’t expect a polar bear
To swim like Murray Rose.

Alas, there was a time I hoped,
When humans, loathsome turds,
Would bear their folly all alone,
And not the beasts and birds.
But no; we’ll take them as we go,
And not by dribs and drabs,
When greenhouse morphs to runaway
And oceans boil their crabs.

Sir Hawking says we ought to flee,
To Mars or deepest space,
And save a vestige of our genes
To wreck some other place.
With all respect for such a mind,
I can’t but thus remark,
Let’s send the creatures in our place
A Noah-less Noah’s
Ark.

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