Transcendental Sonnet #1409:
Hot

Some few still say of global warming: no such thing
But I can hear alarm bells sounding: ting-a-ling
And it is a hundred and two on my front porch
Somehow right now as I watch global warming scorch
My neighborhood with understood immediacy
I would say this theory feels like reality
To me but please I am not looking for a fight
With touchy and defensive people on the right

Yet right would seem a relative term in this case
I am no scientist though and I leave with grace
Taking cold showers and saving my flowers from
Present climate changes and as for those to come
Good thing for me I am so sensitive to cold
It looks like I will still be hot when I get old

+Steven Curtis Lance



Copyright MMV * Peace

a cool poem with warmness in heart
supani

Mean while here in New Zealand everyone is frying from UV radiation from the hole in the ozone layer that everyone forgot about...they were supposed to send rockets up there with ozone in it 15 years ago to fix it...

Thank you both, friends old and new.

The world has known for many years that the American president does not believe in climate change, and then, just the day before yesterday, his NASA administrator, politicized toadie which he is--a rather poor scientist named Michael Griffin--wondered aloud on the radio if it would really be so bad, even suggesting it was arrogant of us living now to think that the climate ought not to change, that the climate to come might even be better. I actually heard this nutter say these things during an interview on National Public Radio.

How unutterably tragic that fools like these two men are busily ruining the world, while so many others are desperately trying to save it. I have children, and I would like to be a grandfather someday; I resent rich and powerful idiots destroying my planet. Of course, Michael Griffin says that someday more of us will live elsewhere than on this planet. I like it here; I do not want to live on the moon or on Mars (not that NASA's present science will get them there very well or soon).

I'm glad someone found this old sonnet of mine; I had quite forgotten about it, but it's in one of my books somewhere.

Thank you again, kind friends.

Respect and solidarity,

+Stevie