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Hurricane Helene Who Launched A Thousand Ships
Fires, floods, and famines will take us to a new world
Hurricane Helene is launching many ships and boats
And further storms are coming, let’s see what sinks or floats
There is no climate haven, but on any given day
Your planet supports more life than any other getaway
If you can’t buy insurance, you can’t afford a rocket ship
To Mars, or stars, or anywhere, would be a one-way trip
Maybe, instead, we could be grateful to our planet
Maybe hold up the world, rather than see it plummet
HECC is Human Emissions Climate Catastrophe:
Abbreviate as HECC
Hell is a place where bright flowers born this year
burn, or drown, or simply wilt — and disappear
Helen is Leda’s baby, Milton Wrote Paradise Lost
We’re poets of tomorrow, what we keep, and what is tossed
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