Viva Sheinbaum! Viva Mexico!

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL POLITICS

Viva Sheinbaum!

 

Mexico rises while others step back

A woman becomes president

Holding the nation on track

Of course there are problems

But the people well know

In a world filled with dangers

Our progress is slow

 

But we cannot lose sight

On the long road ahead

Of the wrongs and the rights

To endure what we’ve bred

We need patience and strength

To break from the past

If we do not make changes

Our race will not last

 

So today while we celebrate

A great victory for all

We must always remember

We’re not far from the fall

The gangs are still thriving

They’re still building a wall

While the odds of surviving

Are beginning to stall

Climate Change Deniers

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL WARMING

Climate Change Deniers

 

They looked us in the eyes

And said it wasn’t true

When it got a little late they said

There’s nothing we can do

 

So we went on with our shopping

Our burning fossil fuels

We went on with our partying

On the famous Ship of Fools

 

From the West Texas tornadoes

To the California fires

Give a nod and tip your hats

To the climate change deniers

 

We didn’t hear them then

The sayers and the criers

Against the echo chamber

Of the climate change deniers

 

We listen to them now

As the earth begins to burn

We smell their little lies

And their dirty little liars

Who never knew and never learned

The climate change deniers

 

Disproportionate Retribution

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GAZA

Disproportionate Retribution

 

During the October 7^th outrage

Hundreds were taken as hostages

Men were tortured and women raped

Thirteen hundred innocents were killed

 

In the ensuing war against Palestine

Nearly 40 thousand Gazans died

Nine thousand West Bank Palestinians

taken as leverage or punishment

Men and children beaten; women raped

Journalists killed and detained

 

Martial law is in effect

Israeli soldiers do as they please

Those who live in the Gaza Strip

Have been pushed from north to south

where they are cornered and trapped

Displaced from their homes

They run, they hide, the beg for mercy

Yet Israel has none to give

Netanyahu has executed mercy

Netanyahu has extinguished good will

Netanyahu has exterminated hope

At best it is disproportionate retribution

At worst it is genocide

At least it is unforgivable sin

Hang On!

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL WARMING

Hang On

 

It rolls in like an angry sea

In waves of battering heat

Relentless and without mercy

It refuses to skip a beat

 

So hang on for a brutal ride

In the early days of June

Nowhere to run, just stay inside

And howl at the yellow moon

 

They warned us it was coming fast

They laid it out in stark detail

They put the flags at half mast

They delivered it in the mail

 

So now it is up to all of us

Let us do the best we can

Get on board the climate bus

For the final days of man

 

Maybe I exaggerate

Maybe it’s not so bad

Could it be it’s not too late?

It’s enough to drive me mad

 

127 Degrees in New Delhi

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL WARMING

127 Degrees

 

127 degrees Fahrenheit in New Delhi

The hottest ever in the month of May

For as long as temperatures have been recorded

Do not let your children go out to play

For the seasons now are grossly distorted

Imagine a heat that rolls in waves

Just imagine the way it feels

You blame the sun for its brutal rays

You are certain it is not real

It beats you down like a runaway slave

Like a pain that never heals

 

One hundred twenty-seven degrees in May

How hot will it be come summer

Crops will fail, emotions will fray

The dumb will become even dumber

And no one knows what happens then

In the months of desperation

We’ll beg and plead to breathe again

We’ll remember that cool sensation

We will not look back at where we’ve been

We’ll pretend it never occurred

But there was a time we remember when

Our destruction was not assured