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Earth Day 2020 Wednesday, April 22

Earth day 2020 – Wednesday, April 22 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 21st 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 & coaching proselytizers to shine klieg lights where industrialization tattooed unseemly sights land once (unimaginably) pristine acres irrevocably repurposed into grotesque disfigured terra firma. Fifty years ago come the morrow witnessed zee 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 & 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 amp pulley 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 yacht ta yacht ta yacht ta.

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