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One little primrose

lifted its head up and

smiled at the sullen sky.

One little primrose

lifted the world up

and hardly had to try.

Now we’ve got a tsunami threat.

I say:  Don’t that Beat All!

Haven’t we had enough to handle

through this winter and this fall?

I have a fresh Do!

I have a new coif!

My straggly hair

has been trimmed off!

I feel like a

Woman of the World

when my hair is

permed and cut and curled.

My three old cats

all like their food.

On that, they do agree.

As long as they get

both kibble and wet,

they’re a happy group of three.

I’ve lighted a candle for the world.

Perhaps we can find direction.

Perhaps we’ll see a path to take

in the candle’s pure reflection.

The earth is unfriendly.

It liketh us not.

The temperature varies.

Too cold.  Then, too hot.

The oceans are rising,

the forests on fire.

The food chain is threatened.

The future seems dire.

The question’s before us:

Will we do what we can?

Or will we drift idly

to the Ending of Man?

A little pink primrose lifted its head

and reached for the sullen sky.

It’s promise on this wintry day:

Spring’ll be here by and by.

Fifteen hundred die each day.

We count them – one by one.

We hear the news – then turn away—

as the march of death goes on.