Dead beetles die in their skins, and
Seychellois, Mauritanians, Maurtians, Martians,
Fighting with sun-tans all, and
Bad lip jobs,
In Nairobi,
Silent giraffes grope for love,
God,
Tends to antelopes,
The world ends
In a traffic jam or,
Dicks in space-suits building railways through the heart of a city.
♦Photo♦ Friends of Nairobi National Park
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We spend our days,
Getting ready for tomorrow,
Hoping the past will not catch us,
The bad eating, the saccharin juices, when
Now is the only moment, to
Love, to
Speak,
Re-pack your life, forgive –
Go,
On an adventure or,
Simply state your piece,
It will be alright.
We may yet,
Save the climate.
♦photo♦ – High Museum Art of Atlanta
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For my friends battling Cancer.
Grown men cry saving birds in nests perched high,
Teeter on long bamboo poles,
Fighting snakes,
and extinction,
Cry in despair when a chick dies,
Cry in joy,
When two,
Shake tremulous crowns, childhood plumes,
So tenuous,
Parents squacking overhead in the damp,
Damp valley,
Valley so high on the dull,
Dull mountain,
Afraid of the snake that comes at dawn,
Through the leaves,
In the tall, green forest,
Tall trees, Nipponia nippon, and
Men up the tree,
Up,
Up,
No thought for slackline or failure,
-the snake almost had them the last time –
Grown men cry,
Cry saving birds,
Cry heavy, heaving sighs, cry,
Conservationist.
♦picture♦ – The IUCN list of endangered species
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Aliens have been vanquished before.
Dolphins,
Whales,
Elephants,
Orchids all,
Intelligent,
Cannot look after Earth,
May have seen the end coming, not
Had the means to pollinate,
Thought life,
Conscious, must
Be responsible,
For life, have
Missed the archer,
Choosing the trajectory,
Been the arrow,
Aliens,
Forgetting that food
Chains,
Are best when,
Dolphins,
Whales,
Elephants,
Orchids all,
Are cared for, reefs
Unable to do so,
Visible from space like,
Large Scale structures of the Universe and,
Remembering just in time to,
Be the ones that save.
The asteroid went unnoticed.
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Picture – Large Scale structure of the Universe; Andrew Pontzen and Fabio Governato
Tie the thread to the farmer!
Marry the Bride to the Groom!
Arrange a wedding for five billion people,
We are approaching the end!
Road rage is the immediate,
And sudden reconfiguration of,
A prior expectation and we are doing well,
The old lady, the Guru and I,
We are making effort.
It is,
In this moment,
A crisis which kills on the streets of America, and
People are cruel.
Just off the ashen pavement, obsidian in the dark,
A boy is playing PlayStation, so –
Kurukshetra! Ping,
Lakshmi! Ping,
Mohammed! Buddha! Ping, ping.
The lady looks hypnotised,
I am cold,
And people are cruel.
They have left the Guru here and gone to bed,
Can you imagine that?
♦Picture♦ PJ Kaiser
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