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Show your son…

 

So show your son a sunset

before they’re all gone

advised an old Lefty

exhibiting the usual paranoia

of the Left

that has now spilled over

on ecologists

and others of their ilk

always ranting about the ozone hole

and cancer and smoking

and the population of the world

doubling again

by the year two thousand twenty

and about how the earth

is coming to a sudden bad end

 

Whereas we all know the media and

the oil combines and

the tobacco companies and

the industry scientists and

the industrial perplex in general

are all telling us the whole bull

and nothing but the bull

So no need to worry

“No problem”

as they say downtown

Even if those clouds out the window

look a bit strange

And the droughts all over the world

aren’t really all that bad

because it can’t happen here

as they used to say in the Thirties

And all those jet streams from airlines

really don’t spew more

cancerous exhaust

than a billion cars

 

And those aren’t really

Sun Dogs in the too-brilliant sun

And sunsets are still sunsets

even if they are only

one-color sunsets

over which pilots are reporting

clouds are lower than they used to be

before the Greenhouse years

Whereas sunsets now are more like “heart events”

with pollution like bad cholesterol

jamming the arteries of the universe

and obstructing circulation

and causing systemic disasters

 

And our evening spread across the sky

like a patient passed out upon a table

 

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Done