POEM: A Boner Fide Off Her

Things are heating up in America
As round the earth
Flatlanders are in a whirled
Of applausable deniability
As their scholar ship sales
Off any known atlas
Of shrugging turtles
And histrionic elephants
Lording over mice and men
In the name of
Republic and mulishness unleashing
Wretched blaming
Artless prey
And blame ideologies
In quakes of human faults
Indifferent in effect
To reason
Snatched
In a phallus logic
As in is capable
With mother earth getting hotter every day
Only asking for it
Her plea to cool it
Only be lying
A girl tempting
To think too hard
Effacing such a boner fide off her

This poem is about macho braggadocio and an abiding disrespect for nature and human kind. When such hubris enters politics, both Mother Earth and the body politic get screwed. Scientific illiteracy in general, and climate change denial specifically, are arenas where greedy ideologies are conveniently engorged on fact-free rations. Patriarchy and hyper-masculinity give a big hand to victim blaming, outwardly their natural outgrowth. Such masturbatory ideologies lead to blindness of natural consequences. That power is as power does masquerades as scientific acumen, as fore juggernaut of perverse cause-and-effect. In such phallus logic, the invisible hand magnanimously despoils the hole fecund planet. Meet market, free market, proving worth wile in every victim it volunteers. Such virulent virility vivisects Mother Earth and her children. And what remains, who could resist?