Death by Natural Causes
An eco-tourism poem

Down the street from the RadioShack by the stretches of the unmasked and the same copycat blueprint pasted down the whole block
Across from a tourist scam disguised as a burger joint, the blizzard-veined Superior stashes secrets in the Earth leaving tree-rings of hell: high water.
Three seasons spent under two stories of shredded cloudcover, yet when the lake catches its breath the lone summer swelts and migratory carriers flock towards “must-see” spots between perspiratory exhales hallucinating on crystalized pasts packaged as the future by oh-so-grand parents that yesterday would be the same today, again tomorrow
Ripe for the taking like the same fruit elders once chewed — choosing not to mention they never spit out any seeds.
They gawk at land the water chiseled out in glacial pace of youth consuming, littering & loitering, eroding the granddaughter of Pangaea Yanking at her limbs till they split at river-seams. Strip-mined & returned to sender: morsel by ungrateful morsel to a warming watery grave — the aging Poseidon.
Felling the family tree quicker than natural causes ever could
Cascade abandon to the worthless logs Mill the survivors into bartops
— A.D.
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