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How did the jungle get here?
Did it come on a train
like an old time circus
          rolling in before dawn
while we splattered mind-nets
      with our secrets?

A rainforest has invaded;
has manifested out of alarm and
a far too high quotient
                  of native dumbness.
The clacking of parrots
drowns out far off whale songs,
mutes the lowing of milk cows,
        only the cicada drone on
                happy to click along.

This green thunder is oppressive.
The domestic canopies of backyards
are sprouting mythical Triffids.
Grass is getting spikey and carnivorous.
Tabby cat are being abducted
              by roaming panthers.
Giant sloths hang from the hedgerows.

Did we dream up this primal Eden?
Did we cancel
the regular unpredictable weather
                    of predictable Ohio?
Global Warming
could never have appeared to be real
if we had not made it so
by thinking it so,
                            and as so many here
think very little -
                          we had it coming.

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