Today winds at 20 miles per hour
The temperature is 90
no electricity no power
Santa Cruz Halloween costumes will be about
the Joker and surfing
Wild fires red and orange, windy and smoky
San Francisco schools are closing
Muir Woods blackened as wood is disappearing
San Diego in the hills have evacuations
Tornado Warnings for Mobile, AL
the basement shutters in a storm rotation
New Orleans severe rains and flash floods
where jazz music and instruments are floating
An Arctic cold front sweeps through the north
friends fighting breathing in Dakota
aware of the potential for pneumonia
And the snow storms from the skies
We are back to the times when mankind and wildlife
fought for food and shelter as even technology fails
White sharks are roaming at Rio Del Mar
at 90 in October the living bay waters are hot
I share my peanuts and water in the heat of the 90s
but I notice that the squirrels and crows do not
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