above a hundred
the cycle or hoax of global warming
grows more intense, it seems, each year
triple digit temperatures for more
than a week now in what has been
the mild Pacific Northwest
as in many areas of the world
so few of those pale or reddened
dizzy, sick, miserable, dying
needing shade and water
and having little or none
are those whose focus on business profitability contributes
to those very tens of notches above
one hundred degrees Fahrenheit