Warming to the Future

This wouldn’t have to happen if we raked our forest floors.

Now the Oregon/Cal border’s only good for cooking smores.
Fire waves and furnace heat are bouts of climate change.
It ‘s irony but adds a new light to ‘home on the range.’
And this time the inferno’s booked for a cross-country tour,
with temps well past one hundred, really too much to endure.
In the west, thirty five cities set temperature highs.
Portland scored a one-sixteen. Now that was a surprise.
Climate change affects the jet stream. We’re told that’s the reason.
Who knows how bad things will get in this year’s wildfire season?
And, if one thinks Canada’s a cooler place to be,
they just hit a record one-eighteen up in BC.
Rolling blackouts result from need of A/C and fan.
They’ve already happened two straight days now in Spokane.
We’ve still got two months of summer hot spots to endure.
Climate change has gone deranged. We’re hurtin’. That’s for sure.

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