political and climate change
November, 2016, started off with a spasm of disgust
by a U.S. electorate fed up with incompetence in Washington
and fueled with the hope that a wealthy businessman,
whose talk and action were as common as Andrew Jackson,
could clean up the swamp
where a government run by the greed of corporations
and the wealthy 1%,
make decisions that leave out the many,
those false prophets who feel their worth
to be only better if they hog
more and more of the pie for themselves,
instead of Robin Hood,
we elected the Sheriff of Nottingham,
who actually delighted in the swamp
where his self-interested gluttony
was the only value he ever acted on,
November, 2016, ended with the Great Fire in the Smokies,
where the self-centered greed of the fossil fuel industry
stoked climate change into debilitating drought,
the spark of a fire set by thoughtless teenagers on a popular trail,
then fanned into inferno by the high winds
climate change can also bring,
the Great Fire almost took our cabin in the Smokies
and did take homes and lives and businesses
in its mindless roar so like the electorate weeks before,
we humans have the gift to be self-aware
and to be able to rise above the narrowest parochial self,
to grasp at what the whole needs,
the whole of people, of place,
of what life itself works to create
with the gift of our days
and the world that allows us
to breathe, to know, to feel, to do.
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