In just five weeks, temperatures and tempers have risen
Words boiled over; rhetoric hit new lows
He lit, then fanned, the flames
Of racism, warmongering, untruths
Heaped disdain and derision upon
The smoldering embers of all we once took for granted
Alliances long held, the notion of justice and liberty for all
While pandering to the worst amongst us
Feeding the fear and the fever
That was brewing in swampland
Layoffs and lecturing
Hardlines and haranguing
Bulls and china shops spring to mind
While we try to find
A modicum of sense
In all the nonsense and the maddening mayhem
But as seasons turn, and tides do too,
So one hot summer will come before the fall
As we watch, we gather, we call
Out to each other
For we know the science of climate change
Is upon us
And as winter beckons
Many snowflakes make a blizzard
And a reckoning awaits
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