tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1368399274869394910.post643818093776236040..comments2023-10-30T06:24:27.047-07:00Comments on The Intersections & Beyond: Earth Hour 2010Arvin Ellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08373056760579326925noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1368399274869394910.post-48962187342163147932010-03-19T22:10:20.545-07:002010-03-19T22:10:20.545-07:00http://toylit.blogspot.com/2010/03/avant-garde-foo...http://toylit.blogspot.com/2010/03/avant-garde-food-critic-news-poem-march.html<br /><br />Avant-Garde Food Critic [News Poem, March 18, 2010]<br /><br />“Andrew Wetzler of the Natural Resources Defense Council said the CITES vote is not the end of the story for the bear.<br />"The ironic thing is that all the countries of the conference acknowledge that global warming is posing a huge challenge for this species," Wetzler said. "When you have a species threatened by global warming, it only makes sense to reduce all the other stresses, including hunting."”<br />-Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:30pm EDT<br />http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62H52R20100318<br /><br />The meat of clones will never do<br />For palettes fine—refined like mine.<br />I've tasted polar bear ragout<br />And eaten baiji cooked in wine.<br /><br />I never let the people say<br />I have no use for scarcer fare.<br />One cannot measure food's dismay<br />With what I gain: they don't compare.<br /><br />The hypocrites are shocked I'm sure.<br />To keep their jobs, they smog with crude.<br />To keep their false facade secure,<br />They let machines prepare their food.<br /><br />I'm keeping nothing, nothing's worth<br />The effort there, instead I seek<br />To keep myself well fed. My girth<br />Is sourced with doom, not death: unique<br /><br />I'd say. I'd like to try the last taboo<br />And dine as cannibals once did:<br />Without remorse, I'd slurp that stew.<br />By eating youth, become a kid. <br />http://toylit.blogspot.com/Khakjaan Wessingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05501187261486087495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1368399274869394910.post-34294249976477825102010-03-19T22:08:46.065-07:002010-03-19T22:08:46.065-07:00The Near-Senile Magnetic Cloud Speaks Out of Turn ...The Near-Senile Magnetic Cloud Speaks Out of Turn During a Mating Ritual [Today's News Poem, March 19, 2010]<br />http://toylit.blogspot.com/2010/03/near-senile-magnetic-cloud-speaks-out.html<br />“... Bangladesh, to the vast, such as the US; from the familiar - England, New Zealand... What unites such a disparate group is concern about climate change. They have all signed on to participate in Earth Hour next Saturday.”<br />--JENNIE CURTIN, Sydney Morning Herald, March 20, 2010 <br />http://www.smh.com.au/environment/earth-hour/nations-large-and-small-join-climate-change-campaign-20100319-qmay.html<br /><br />What can't forget cannot recall<br />It seems. The rest of you converge<br />Your nebulae in mating brawls,<br />While memories in me emerge<br /><br />Of stately solar births. With gas<br />It starts... but then the sparking burst! <br />You judge importance by its mass.<br />Like you, I watched the giants first;<br /><br />But atoms lust as well and link<br />Together. Once I saw some chains—<br />Of acid really—learn to think.<br />Astonishing! I watched the brains<br /><br />Of little nothings come aware.<br />And every time I noted one<br />It decomposed. I learned to care<br />For trifles; loved their micro-sun.<br /><br />Though starved of energy, their life<br />Replenished me. Their sense of four<br />Dimensions, crude. Their frantic strife<br />Would end before I'd even store<br /><br />My memories. They loved our kind<br />You know, and envied us as well.<br />They prayed to us, to me to find<br />A way to save them all—to quell<br /><br />Their rightful fears of death. I said<br />I care for them: they called me God.<br />With speech, I seemed to end their dread.<br />They scattered, left their rocky clod.<br /><br />Before explosions killed that race,<br />Before they wandered outer space,<br />They hoped to find enlightened grace.<br />It's there, I said, in every place.<br />http://toylit.blogspot.comKhakjaan Wessingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05501187261486087495noreply@blogger.com