listening to the news
that brings disasters of all kind
with reliable regularity
thanks to our sensationalist media
you may be tempted to believe
the world is going straight to hell
apocalypse is near & unavoidable
whether by asteroids or comets
the Russians or Americans or Chinese
fact is that rising ocean levels
are much more dangerous than changing presidents
flooding the fields and homes of millions
in the lower lying islands of the South Pacific
the cold oblivion of the powerful
about the real people’s tragedies
is what I find most missing
in the so-called news
