Tag: climate change
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Stormy night scared of lightning
Riots in my bonce, in my human bonnet Writing by the light from my bronze sconce Sky alight, a Zeusian riot these past two nights Maryblue forks when Thor outrides Storm tonight no riders on it, writers love it Needy trotters greedily, gleefully smacking a typewriter’s keys, teasing Out a rough schema, the freehand sketch…
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Apartment side
Oven hot inside despite My ringbearer insisting she turned off the heating first thing This evening upon her arrival home We’re Irish and raingrown, both groaning “It’s roasting!” Moaning non-stop, shirtless and sweating I’d bet this is a sign of the end, if I did betting The world had its day, nice wedding with confetti…
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Last left living
I’ve got racks and bands racks and bands Livestrong bracelets outlive the land After the nukes land Whose hand shadowed the burgundy button Land sliding to inhuman climes Life cannot sustain, lung-raping acid rains It’s only cockroaches and plastic bands from Athenry to Atlanta Unmoving city full of noises, pie full of phantoms When do…
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Century’s injurious end
With the climate unstable Impatient seasons do not stay long Or delay overlong Until humid, drooping crops rot Without fixity, fluxing winter lasts a half year. During feared summer Acid rains quicklime once-sylvan demesnes Jettisoned for grim, austere tenements Through cracks in a haunted stairwell Farsighted kids stare out, that perilous without None save death-doubting…
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Disinter
Long languid air atrophied the tomb of Aten Traps, tribulations to thwart thievery Boulders which fall and what’s struck flattens Stairs giving to slides, circling to pits of spikes Vipers in corners, genetically antient, striking out Fanglike pillars flanking doorway which only one true sees Inside your vast golden sarcophagus, the patience of trees On…
Alchemisland 