Call it a dress rehearsal. It was all of that
in living colour when West and Coastal
North America dissolved into an oven of
overheated atmospheric misery ratcheting up
air conditioning while gas extraction came to
a halt because of the heat of a steroidal summer
that led to crackling wildfires, mass evacuations
and towns scorched into ashes. Think that's all?
The extreme weather conditions impacted shelter
and confidence then went on to wreak ruination
in the food supply; poultry and fish pre-broiled
to death unable to survive the heated torment.
Fruit dangling from trees cooked in the heat and
rotted. Crops failed to flower and bear seed to
feed the nations, and forage for livestock failed;
in one fell swoop home and haven and food all
threatened. And this a mere dress rehearsal.
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