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 (DIR) Post #B53Kdx0w6jmuHk5ATw by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
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       #ClassicPoetry #NationalPoetryFoolMonth #poetry Today's poem is one of many through which I've tried to confront the history of global warming activism and its failure.  Written 2014, it's another two-column poem, although in the second column there is just an R.E.M. song playing:https://rpuchalsky.blogspot.com/2014/06/global-warming-activism-dream.html
       
 (DIR) Post #B53KdxE3JyHOwQDdvU by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
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       This R.E.M. song was, as far as I can tell, inspired by "pollution trading", which was not really a global warming concept since it first involved pollutants that cause acid rain.I've written many times about my poems being crystallized memories.  This one was more like an aid to memory.  I thought back over the mass of things I'd done and wondered did all these really happen?  Which of them came first?  The years in the poem are actual years when I did things.
       
 (DIR) Post #B53KdxSaRvuDfV1Fa4 by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
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       As such I'll sometimes look back at the poem as a reference to when I did things in my own life.  And check the links, except for the middle part where I worked for an environmental group that came to so much nothing that even the links to what I worked on are gone.The end of the poem is typical move for me: consulting the car radio as an oracle.
       
 (DIR) Post #B53Kdxedj7XyGsesMq by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
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       In keeping with the pop music part of the poem, what I heard was Pharrell Williams "Happy":"2014          What do people actually want to do?I heard on the radio, you're happy"if you feel like a room without a roof"Well yeah! finally a plan we can doHurricanes and floods will do itEveryone can have a room without a roof"Since then I've been partly convinced that one of the reasons that we don't do anything is because people want our civilization to be destroyed.
       
 (DIR) Post #B53KdxsosOtCyrICTA by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
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       So at the end R.E.M. ecstatically asks for the fall, of the re-radiated light, of the civilization, it hardly matters which./fin