051419c

inside this whale
a city washed ashore
dang immigrants!

121718c

13,000 Lost Souls

Torn from their parents
imprisoned by a tyrant
do they ever see the sun?
feel a kind touch?

days turn to months
and where is their Christmas coming from?

060217b

So, when a couple of dozen nations slip beneath the Pacific Ocean over the next few decades, it only seems fair that those most responsible pay to relocate everybody, and find them good jobs, and all that. Fortunately, there is this great subsidized housing project called Mar a Lago, which already has experience accommodating international visitors. I believe there is also an ostentatious Tower in New York City that would be eminently suitable.

It is all very well, in fact, it is good, to personally conserve as much as one can. However, it takes major institutions and governments to significantly alter climate change. I am very glad to see corporations and cities stepping in to clean up the mess left by the federal government. What some people don't realize is that if you clean up the environment right/materially reverse climate change there are huge profits to be made while doing good. Tesla has the right idea making and marketing inexpensive home solar panels.

041317

To Luna, Quickly
 

we're all flying to the moon
the swifts arrive first, obv
but even the slugs go
piggy-backing on the bats
and between the toes of owls
the water there is frozen
and the air is thin
but after the 6-minute war
it's clear they can't stay on Earth

seeds arrive tucked into cheek pouches
of rodents and rabbits on the backs of eagles
who will need something to hunt, after all
no one knows how the elephants did it
but there they are

the forests of the moon are underground
naturally
air is trapped in the caverns
rich in oxygen
light is reflected from crystal formations
deep into the moon
the pale leaves remember the sun

there are no humans
no H. pigstyense
God forbid!




Inspired by a poem by Jane Yolen