This week the Arctic Circle reached the highest temperature ever recorded. We are rapidly approaching, if we haven't already passed, the point where the evidence for climate change is the evidence for extinction. This is my contribution from my forthcoming collection Dyer & Mahfouz.
Conjugating
The Verb ‘To Say Something About Extinction’
Clapping
for Capitalists with Children. Quasicrystalline mannered
Between the amorphous poset
of the dead and completely dead.
Young
birds fly from the nest or fall like discarded beer cans, late
night pizza
boxes, young detritus. Tiny delicate birds decathect
With
or without us, profitcunts bijective to deathcunts reboot
exciting
joy at new products - a false antecedent and a false
consequent atmosphere overloaded with the vertical electric
charge in the planetary
boundary layer of aerosol particles. A
picture
– foot-stamping won’t help, you can’t swim in your boots.
The
extreme separation anxiety of our anomalous atmosphere,
Decaying
as ignoble gas; maybe, we weren’t supposed to make it.
Wealth can provide independence of mind. Wealth
affords one a position of natural leadership and trust.
Wealth enables one to
live more healthfully, with fewer of
the
