ENVIRONMENTAL Poem: Let’s Doom the Environment (The 2024 Agenda), by Marah Heikkila

We get another four years of dismantling;
Mother nature ready to spare nothing;
Until whole cities are within the clutches of the sea, brutal yet so devastatingly beautiful
all at once
The smog hiding the sunrise, basking it in an opaque haze that
Disenchants the youth; infants no longer stare at the sunrise —
Shades of scarlet, orange, yellow, but shades of grey and cement;

But that’s beautiful enough right? It mimics the same cement that overtakes the land,
Killing the natural ground.
More (more oil!)
More (more wealth!)
More (more greed!)
Let’s take America forward and assault the environment while we’re at it.

Who is mother nature anyway? An entity that no longer
Exists to those in charge.
Crying out for help as species start to go extinct,
As the glaciers disappear,
As the sunrises are covered in smug,
As the rainforest burns,
As communities are torn apart,
As cultural sites are destroyed,
As the ground is ripped opened. Assaulted for what it holds. No more autonomy.
No more will.
Let’s march forward and keep assaulting the earth, because this agenda will save us
from our impending climate doom, right?

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