January’s El Nino, “Por favor!” #10
Big baby baking under the Pacific sun
Breast swelled with energy beyond comprehension.
Throwing off his blanket of greenhouse gases
El Nino totters north for cooler pastures.
Into the Polar Jet Stream the baby blunders
Blindly groping he gashes the barrier asunder.
El Nino dumbly destabilizes our atmosphere,
Threatening the temperatures of the entire hemisphere.
The air flowing in the troposphere is no bar,
El Nino passes through and leaves the door ajar,
For Polar Vortex to slip out
An Artic tsunami roaring south.
A glacier of air miles high and continent wide
Only the baby can push back this Polar tide.
We implore El Nino “Por favor!
Return to your home at the Equator.”
With shivering desperation, we shout “Please retreat!”
Once you slumber again, we swear to lower the heat.”
big baby baking!! the last two lines!!
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