I know, it’s one damn thing after another but it’s time for

A note from Mother Nature
or
“Ida’s Mad Fandango”:

I went down to the ocean
The ocean spoke
She said:
That was a hell of a party last night
Down in the delta!

Oh yes.
Hurricane Ida.

We blew down trees!
We tore the roof off!

The band played and we danced down the levees
All night long!

Me and my partner- Ocean and Wind-
together did a bold naked tango
And a lot of crazy made-up modern dances
-what the hell!

We did the boogaloo
We did the mashed potato
We did the Flyin’ Gator!

They could hear us all the way to Acapulco!

Our vacation’s
your evacuation!

The whole environment got drunk on your gasoline last night.

We siphoned pulverized plastic
We drank it out of cast-away jars and old tin cans

We chewed microchips
We sucked on lithium batteries with sea salt
and lemon

We begged for more hydrocarbons!
More Microwave intensity!
We got totally polluted!

Americans got the good stuff!:

PCPs and DDTs
gave us the trembles
We barfed up a whirlwind
And ready to go at it again!

We tore the lid off and threw it away!
Cups and straws and plastic bags
A disposable deluge -thats
Ida!

O, the Styrofoam!

Mississippi Delta got wasted, man!

Keep doing what you’re doin’, Americans!

Turn up the heat! Crank up appliances!
Stream the hot reality tv- and blast the AC! Self-driving cars got the whole room spinnin’

Desert over here, floods over there
Fires and fever and pandemic everywhere

You got the non-biodegradable blues
And when you’re gone, lightweights-
We’ll carry on
-without you!

Oh yes Nature gets it on without you!

(PS Don’t forget to leave the light on!)