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Climate Refugee
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Crumbling Planet .
It gets hot here
each year
hotter.
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Sea gets high here
each year
wetter.
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Stay impossble here
leave home
better.
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Lady A
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It gets hot here
each year
hotter.
.
Sea gets high here
each year
wetter.
.
Stay impossble here
leave home
better.
.
Lady A
.
And Michigan hasn't seen the
And Michigan hasn't seen the worst of it. In places like South Asia, air conditioning is the great devider. Try telling them it's all a hoax.
Your delightfully spare and to-the-point poem confronts the very real possibility of mass migration. Crucial and impressive.
Migration
Islands are losing shoreline, polar caps shrink- new name for michigan sports team: The Ann Arbor Seals. Go Fins! May the people affected find havens to resettle and survive. We have soooooo much land here.
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Boomers are fading - 2040 no replacements to keep us this big. Turning usa women into baby manufacturies is soooo 1940's. Immigration of Islanders will be a shock to pro nationalist culture preservers. That or starving, burning, flooded out every nation, come on over to good ole usa. That would be fun! And humane.
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~A~
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"Go fins!" Your sense of
"Go fins!" Your sense of humor in the face of all this surreal collapse and backsliding is refreshing. I hope the displaced victims of climate injustice (People who contributed the least are suffering the most.) can find safe haven here. Screw the xenophobes! I applaud your concern and compassion.
Compassion
That is the word for the future. Famine globally would require sacrefice induced by compassion. Slender hope: the world could wake up and start ending practices that harm us and Earth. It could happen - that is the essence of faith.
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~A~
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