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watched the news this week
reminds me of cold war days
eastern enemies

i want to retreat
turn it off and hide away
safe here from rockets

but then i look out
at record heatwaves outside
turn the a/c up

burn the energy
that comes from the fossil fuels
we use so quickly

and buy from those that
fire rockets at children
did i pay for that?

is the tv on?
maybe another beer will
calm me down again

but damn, its so hot
they say the greenhouse effect
created Venus

suns radiation
trapped by carbon dioxide
keeps getting hotter
liquid metal lakes
acid raining from the sky
could it have been green?

i put down my beer
and look out in the back yard
at the browning grass

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