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http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/22521climate-disruption-
dispatches-with-dahr-jamail

Ordinarily you won’t find me

Among the End-Timers, those

White bearded dudes in robes

Carrying hand lettered signs

On sticks warning, “Repent. 

The end is at hand.” But today

After reading Dahr Jamail’s

Latest Climate Disruption

Dispatch in Truthout I’ve

Had to consider seriously

Whether that is my calling.

I’ve long feared I’m playing

Cassandra in my little portion

Of the earth and its children.

I’ve spoken up at church to

Alert people that the day to

Do something serious about

Climate change has passed

And that our only course is

To huddle with our children

And pray that when the end

Comes, it comes quickly. For

We have ignored corrective

Action for far too long. We have

Set the stones rolling downhill—

Our matches have ignited the

Unquenchable wicks and there’s

Little to do but tick off the few

Remaining seconds of our 

Inglorious reign on the planet—

Those congressional wizards

Maintaining God has promised

Never again to destroy us by

Flood, notwithstanding. No, 

It will be fire this time. No 

Question of whether the world

Will end in fire or ice, for ice,

However nice it may suffice,

Will all be melted never to form

Again. No snowflakes to land

And disappear on our youngsters’

Tongues, no snowballs to topple

Warm wool headgear as we rush

To get into schools and away from

Wintry blasts. If we rush at all it

Will be to get into air-conditioned

Cars, buildings, homes momentarily

Safe from the new locusts who

Will be busily devouring every

Plant from bud to leaf to stem

To root. The universe may have

Some populations who survive,

Having avoided cooking their 

Own planets, who come here to

Marvel over our cinder, much 

Like we today visit Pompeii

And wonder, “What were they

Thinking?”—to live so close to

Imminent danger, to risk family

And future. They can be forgiven.

They had little to warn them—no

Movies of lava flows, no geology

To rank-order the likelihood of 

Their demise over the centuries.

But we have it all. Warnings piled

On warnings from every science

From every school. As we go

About our business let us pray

It comes quickly.

c. J.S.Manista, 2016