Environmentalists like to flash forward Tape-recording temperatures, Looking for holes in the high altitudes. Lists of souls, species Near extinction. The mythology of lifeboats and whales. One wants to save Jonah, The other the orca whose song is a psalm. Both damn man, prophesying doom At the door.
Donations are deductible.
One thinks that God will reward him. The other thinks not. They have migrated into the maples Lining the boulevards, abandoning The Meadowlands upon which stadiums Have been built, complexes. A cacophony outside her window. An inalienable right, Her life ruled by racket.