A Change In The Weather
It’s not “the earth” being destroyed
by the corporate policies that lead
to “global climate change”
It’s just its capacity to sustain us. Just.
Earth will survive us, and the floods and famines--
the rich can do without New Orleans
or even New York City and start again from
the newly liberated, habitable,
sunny vacation spots
of Greenland and Antarctica
even while the googly-eyed water bottles
from the plastic ocean
come alive
with paramecia, paramecium,
to inhabit the rest of the world
with their social democracy
until the Greenlanders figure out
ways to enslave them too.
Whose fantasy is
that?
In the meantime, they poison us for profit
and some have even been quoted
in joyous anticipation
that the arctic icecaps melt
to open shipping lanes
and make it easier to get
the oil from the North Pole