Similar if not identical to last year...

umpteenth heat wave since onset of summer...

sizzles Delaware Valley today August 26^th, 2022

Said geographical area composed of counties

located in Southeastern Pennsylvania,

South Jersey, Delaware, and

Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Sweltering temperatures

figuratively grip human zoo

bipedal hominids (yours truly,

an olive - garden variety simian)

seek much sought after shade
under whirled wide webbed yew

encompass vantage point to view

how flora and fauna cook née stew.

Weather records (temperature + heat index)

(one for the books) chart mercury

rising hot enough to melt tar,

which indicates global warming

quite evident I fear,

what with mean Fahrenheit degrees

from January – August 2022 (thus far)
noticeably above norm for this time of year
prognosticators foretell forecasts

per this third planet from the star,
which inhabitants upon Mother Earth

burden of responsibility must bear

billions of people wanton pollutants

ratchet up barometric millibar
dialing up greenhouse effect,

which serious scenario scientists fear
correlation from profligate offal ways

traced from freed genie in the jar,
no longer stretch of imagination

affects mankind did sear
since day of reckoning,

whence Prometheus set stage for war
pitting mankind against Gaia

urgent messages we fail to hear.

Dystopian forecast impossible mission to avoid

since doomsday thoughts pervade consciousness

after perusing newsworthy information

globe trotting correspondents riskily employed

imperiling their life and limb to acquire

truthful natural and/or human interest stories

occurring across all four corners
of oblate spheroid,

i.e. world wide web,

whereby Earth situated within nebulous void.

I try mine darndest to maintain optimistic aire

all the while gleaning apocalyptic intimations

courtesy human engineered phenomenon

all the more rhyme and reason to beware

Homo sapiens on brink of armageddon,

especially when trustworthy cognoscere

painstakingly document their research

and without lacking hesitation declare

drastic paradigm shift away

from dependence on nuclear

energy and fossil fuels everywhere

else climate change could bitta bing

bitta bang hasten global warming,

where wicked watery wasteland

wreaks bleak soggy frontier

backed by popular demand

majority trumpets grandpoobear

for president, he who donned hair

actually he got bewigged courtesy fake

orange toupee, which got blown away

while he hoisted himself

with his own petard.

Imagine dragons if ye will - one immense

ferociously diametrically,

and climatological, cosmological,

geomorphological, meteorological phenomena

opposite that of Polar Vortex

(perhaps an apropos

nom de plume

would be Hades Furnace)

asphyxiating, clapping,

and encapsulating thee

entire oblate spheroid planet.

Judgement day could be similarly
blazing hot on the saddle, or cold
as a witch’s tit, which constant reminders
during Spartan, slated singe shearing,
stoic upbringing inured us Lutherans
to bite the figurative bullet
(which melted like caramel),
during those scorching, sea-sickening,
and sunstroke unbearable vaporizing winds.

No matter the temperature considerably cooler
holed deep within man cave
here within Lake Wobegon,
(especially with a box and desk fan
blowing pleasant air), nonetheless
I still lose out viz zit head by exertion
as a zero sum game.