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Earth Day 2021 Thursday April 22

POETIC PREFACE: An inner conflict dust brew within this scribe, who offers ye to chew (like sweet treats metaphorically) thee do tee incumbent, when Doomsday clock counts down minutes few according Al Gore rhythm unstoppably ticking, when life gets turned to global goo tenderized viz Doctor Zeus if not Horton Hears Hoo then most definitely The Lorax (couching urgent morals underscored by satellite photographs showing melting ice caps or igloo, which planetary sos, sans in extremis requires joint effort of Gentile and Jew, plus every other sectarian credo, dogma, ethos, faith...knew clear family, and whatnot to become linkedin with Linda Loo yes, we moost not forget Old MacDonald with his moo moo there bovine creatures agedly hobbling along, or new lee born, cuz juiced one day per three hundred and sixty five (six with leap year - imagine dragons festooned leotard with brand name Oroblu) or poor ole Winnie The Pooh eternally stuck in Rabbit's hole sum Hutch as a queue doth loosely form dreaming up and rue mien hating solution to eradicate toxins humankind doth spew into the atmosphere (burning the midnight oil) true lee trying to remedy plight of said bear character, perhaps unstated message being woo king in tandem solutions to resolve wretched condition of world wide web possible by bridging differences between me and you, and you, and you... Earth Day 2021 – Thursday April 22 Every day ought necessitate reverence towards Gaia a vibrant living and breathing planet entity experiencing upon her land and seas. Bajillion banshees scream bloody murder methought upon Biblical (lionized) forebears stalking heads birthed courtesy accursed beasts hood besought winds howl across the oblate spheroid methinks courtesy *****sapiens horror wrought. Climate change/global warming siren song Adam event since time immemorial against sacred covenant doing Mother Nature wrong April 22nd waning hours warn us King Kong antithetical, egotistical, & heretical caretakers over populated quintessential rowdy sinning rawbit & powdermilk biscuit munching throng. Antiestablishmentarian gambit voiced, I tootle (albeit figuratively), and feign playing trumpet challenging when born with submucous palate lamely feeble attempt made tinkering with words aware crushing humanity legacy takes Herculean effort to implement global revolution, staging and coaching proselytizers to shine klieg lights where industrialization tattooed unseemly sights land once (unimaginably) pristine acres irrevocably repurposed into grotesque disfigured terra firma. Fifty one years ago come (The First Earth Day in April 22nd, 1970) courtesy Senator Gaylord Nelson orchestrated first metaphorical telescoping lens zooming close far more horrible than "fake" special effects we as collective species impacted planet harkening back when nasty, short and brutish proto humans mastered steely ironic mettle to fell one after tree after another, I need not axe the question if queasy induced state imagined envisioning yourself, née Pandora's box (purported inventiveness) suddenly vaulted and unhinged inkling, when beastie boys plus goo goo dolls loosed goods no longer under lock and key i.e. raw materials to fashion, whatever struck fancy re: innately "gifted" descendent afforded momentary recognition (nameless naked apes) that hit upon idea way manifold generations before iconic light bulb lit western civilization taming current of (ohm my dog) flow of electrons to supply amply charging electricity countless intervenvening millennium one after another survival of the fittest likely accidentally melded insight with (then) near infinite natural resources labored away. Unbeknownst, when chance cerebral serendipity gave way where inchoate deliberation, how ardent smarts applied today gave dawn of consciousness quantum leap launching landlubbers thrust into the seven seas eventually marshalling routes to unknown, nevertheless pirated quay zee whirled wide watery web long ago hushing nay saying doubting Thomas (English muffin chomping chap), especially at financing and cost courtesy bourgeoisie the same old bay... sic yacht ta yacht ta yacht ta.

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