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