Skylands July 27, 2022

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Skylands July 26, 2022

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what will it take

We watch the carp gasping for air 

As we sweat through yet another day

Enduring this interminable heat wave

Too hot even in the early morning air

The warm water lacks dissolved oxygen

Suffocating the fish in the shallow lake

Even though this is the hardy survivor species

Able to tolerate what kills most others

The lake is drying up like a mud puddle

As the summer drought continues 

Everything that grows thirsts for rain 

While the climate crisis gets ever worse

All the fossil fuel that remains in the ground

Represents wealth owned as private property

And the billionaires in charge of decisions

Absolutely will not agree to take the loss

That is why the planet is burning up

As they obstruct and delay any serious action  

Even though the undeniable cause has long been known 

Even as the daily headlines shout global catastrophe 

It took a civil war to put an end to slavery 

Divesting the owners of their human property

Though much unfinished business remains

And exploitation remains a way of life

Now divesting the owners of their fossil fuels

Faces an intransigent invested opposition

Unmoved by human suffering and mass extinction

Answering only to their bottom line

Celery Farm July 24-25, 2022

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