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| The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum (c. 1821) by John Martin John Martin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons |
This poem satirically responds to elected officials who believe the climate crisis is a hoax, even with the ultraconservative IPCC’s 2019 dire warnings. I recall Jonathan Swift cared deeply about starvation in Ireland in 1729 so he wrote “A Modest Proposal” suggesting Irish babies be raised for meat and gloves as a way to draw attention from wealthy London investors.
Man Denies
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD
It never
happened. It was fake news.
Bodies in Pompeii
were plaster casts.
There was no
molten lava, pumice, ash.
What scientists
and researchers call
unequivocal evidence
is just a matter
of liberal opinion.
Don’t tell me
about
Pliny the Younger
as he also thought
there was a man
named Jesus.
I mean how likely
is it
a fire-raining volcano
would
surprise so many
talking in gardens,
eating lunch,
wondering what
the day would bring?
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