This Brave New World, XCIV
another indictment
stirs up more election deniers
in this promised land
more property vultures
swoop on another fire-ravaged town
FYI:Democracy Now, August 16: Hawaii Officials ID First 2 Victims of Maui Wildfires as Hawaiians Warn of Real Estate Vultures
Hawaii officials have started identifying victims of the historic Maui wildfires as the death toll reached 106, with hundreds more missing... Meanwhile, Hawaiians are sounding the alarm over outsiders who almost immediately started preying on survivors to buy up land and property around the historic town of Lahaina, which was all but decimated in the fires.
Added: No More Fairy Tales, XIX
The Choice?
an orange glow
over the mountain ridge ...
she mutters, stay or go?
a bank of dark clouds
one stand after another
of scorched trees
her long stare
in the rearview mirror
orange-tinted skies
FYI: FYI: These orange-tinted skies are the result of smoke particles blocking some wavelengths of sunlight.
And CBS News, August 17: Evacuation of far northern Canadian city of Yellowknife ordered as wildfires approach
Air evacuations were to begin Thursday to move residents in the capital of Canada's Northwest Territories out of the path of wildfires that neared the city of 20,000 people.
Added: No More Fairy Tales, XX
wildfire warning ...
I take another large
black coffee
Added: reading between the lives and writing between the lines, LXXIII
this twentysomething
dot-com multimillionaire beams
this is America ...
I haha, living in this land
with an old immigrant soul
FYI: Democracy Now, June 28, 2023: Poverty 4th Leading Cause of Death in U.S. as Calls Grow for Third Reconstruction: Bishop Barber
And see recent findings in "Novel Estimates of Mortality Associated With Poverty in the US," JAMA Internal Medicine, 2023;183(6):618-619
