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Still care about protecting wildlife?
Speak up for bighorn sheep
 
Are you extreme too?
The universe has a special message just for you
 
It may not seem like a lot but…
the moon noticed
 
Manatees may lose protection--
your cells lose their spark
 
Sign the petition—restore voting rights
Earn a gift card
 
This is personal—tariffs are a headache--
the people are rising
 
Midweek sanity oasis--
in search of the perfect chip
 
Why wild salmon?
You won’t feel like crap anymore
 
A goddess exposes strange news:
Your perfect self is hiding in plain sight

A secret wants to reveal itself:
The fate of gray wolves is up to us
 
Solar news of the day--
tough road ahead
 
The same old fine print…
It’s pure corruption
 
Why you won’t be alone this New Year’s:
Support arrives from      nowhere
 
Thank you for your contribution
 
 
(These one-liners were lifted verbatim, then shuffled)

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           ​welcome to the aftermath club                                    
 
the squares are bustling                                   
money passes in and out of a dirty river        
 
science types break the ground                      
coaxing it to squeeze out more fuel                 
 
homes are an endangered species                
whole campuses are binge drinking               
 
empaths cry for mother mangrove                   
to save us from our daily misdeeds                 
 
clocks hang like rigid slate                                
stuck in their patterns to cause us anguish    
 
we can start by puncturing their faces             
then cramp and smash their hands                  
 
to no longer hold us back                          
from crossing into the great state of flux     
 
where the utopia river has been gushing    
good-naturedly within its welcoming banks   
 
inviting our minds to jump into the raft             
our hearts had so subliminally built                
 
long before this frolicking chaos                       
distracted us with its addicting disco              

 
                                          
 

shaman in the corner
 
whether you’re on a sunset sail
standing in a waterfall
waiting to go on stage at the club
showering post waves at the beach
 
whether you’re cooking Italian
lecturing to a raccoon for littering
weeping for the wolves and wetlands
mastering pigeon pose in the park
 
whether you’re singing so big mammals thrive
yelling at the pelicans to guard the seas
swimming in a turtle-rich turquoise ocean
dancing on a deck
while full moon rises and heavy sun sets 
 
keeping heaven on earth from becoming a memory
praying as if words will have an effect
 
from his corner
cross-legged the shaman nods
sits ready with a blessing pipe
sends out an approving ripple
hinting if you stay in motion
all might be made whole
 
meantime
while your body acts
as if it’s busy living forever
the shaman can no longer
hold back his one instruction:
 
mind your head
                                                                First appeared in the Sept, 2023 Issue of Sequoia Speaks

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The Lottery

1/3/2022

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​I just now overheard a scholar dismiss all the life in this entire universe as a random occurrence birthed from chaos. 
 
Really?
 
And his rationale for the irrefutable reality and benign complexity of our life-giving earth: “Well, it’s like we’re riding a winning lottery ticket.”
 
Indeed?
 
Then explain to me the unfathomable depth in a human tear. How the one sourcing the tear is in instant communion with every being who has ever cried out in pain or joy.  
 
Justify how synchronicity, déjà vu, joie de vivre, and the innate drive to be empathic can be reduced to chemical reactions. 
 
Clarify why the new physics is on a mission to de-camouflage the soul of the cosmos. Account for the existence of the word—and pervasiveness of the permanent human infatuation with—soul.
 
Enlighten us how it is possible that existence is a one-in-a-trillion chance when mathematicians have proven that the timeline probability of the evolution of just one simple enzyme found in the human body would take far longer than the known age of the universe. Defend the evolution of the other 75,000 enzymes and how they accidentally work in concert.
 
Use your logic to clarify why there is something rather than nothing. And why you are, rather than why you are not.
 
Now, when you’re exhaustedly emptied of cluttered and circular explanations, sit outside and commune with a star, a pebble, even the air, and reflect honestly upon the trite nature of your arguments. 
 
Then, if you dare, set your last remnant of jaded arrogance aside, and you’ll have proven your destiny as a bona fide winner. 
 
Indeed.
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