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Climate Change


by Bill Yarrow


Every year I have a birthday, and every year another
of my friends succumbs to cancer or virus or suicide.
That's 
a shitty gift. That is devoutly not to be wished.

We are all buried by this and that, drowning
in the undone, poisoned by longing and loss,
bulldozed by a future implacable and black.

But there's a way back from sickness, from
error, from shame. We are built to recover,
to regenerate, to re-image, to re-form.

A part of me is melting, yes. I no longer 
understand what I know or even remember what
I think. Every day I am, more or less, less.  

Meanwhile, every straw vote, every independent poll,
shows that the incandescent kingdom will be reinstalled.

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