FIVE POEMS
Climate change: having our cake and being eaten by it, too
How long can you say noto creme brulee and peanut butter cups, air conditioning,flying to Paris, flying to New York, the big bag of Fritos,a new iPhone, new extensions, new hair color,remodeling the kitchen, a nose job, bigger boobs,smaller bigger boobs when you get tiredof your bigger bigger boobs, two flat screensin the basement, air conditioning, caramel corn,sour cream on your baked potato with butter, the V-8,the turbo V-8, the twin overhead cam turbo V-8,masturbation, a third Coke, a thirty-second Coke,a second loan on your house, building a plastic straw factoryin Chicago, in Kuala Lumpur, masturbation, the extra-large pizzawith cheeseburger-infused crust, watering your grass,cutting your grass, fertilizing your grass,playing nine holes of golf, eighteen, the dreamof an air-conditioned golf course, air conditioning:
