Fire

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Crumbling Planet

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Colorado, near a drying namesake thirsts, lips sere, throat closed now heralds complicity in fewer wet distribution ground wells. Erasures begin with fire due for a one hundred year burn. Denver, high and empty, owns undergrowth measured in too much tonnage to scrape away. Recycled pine pieces will wince when deprived of their water. In concert, a moisture crisis entertains and welcomes burning, as potential as striking lightening or a match.

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Lady A

Author's Notes/Comments: 

The firefighters are leaving the Fed for more pay and predictable work. Death by fire, not a career draw.

~A~

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That is both sad and

That is both sad and potentially horrific on many angles; too many for the powers that be to not address or even look sideways at.


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