When black would rule each day
and white compete for fire-crossed night
Degenerate monopolies
without room or time for color's nuance
cooperative slow truth and beauty harmonies
outlasting endless distressed dissonance,
surprising lack of resolving intuitions,
absence of inspired re-investments in cooperative intent,
When dark climate clouds rule each potential thanksgiving day
and white supremacists compete in post-millennial nightmares
of jihad terrorism
against healthy multicultural communions,
Against resonant nurturing nuance,
Against resilient democratic process and co-empowerment,
For fueling competitions in stressful dissonance
between loyal thanksgiving truths
and matriarch-wombed experience of hope
Then grateful sensual beauty
of full-octave Father shining sun days
outcast our wealthy capital reinvestments
in full communion EarthTribe stage
with 2020 light of day
bright for ultra-nonviolet night.
I got my first Presidential Alert today
Did you
too?
It was alarming
near the middle of the afternoon
to receive this reminder,
He's still President?
Watch out!
As a candidate
he promised us he would do nothing
to improve our weather
and, in fact,
would strongly support Business As Usual
so we could plan on even more severe subclimates
of internal and external pathology--
bilateral climate anxiety
works competitively both ways.
Severe Presidential Alerts
are alarming
but probably necessary acknowledgement
the WhiteHouse denies human contribution
to causing severe climatic harm
and thereby perhaps hopes to avoid expensive global reparations,
responsible repairs
reforesting
un-desertification liabilities,
reinvestments in non-violent health care giving
and receiving with all mattered lives
Now green death shattered by severe climate necessities
of ultra-violet Presidential Alerts
Watch out!
Patriarchal grabbing and transparent extracting,
squeezing and penetrating pain
at Presidential work
against health and love
of future sacred mattered Lives
of Earth herself.
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