Weather Control

Today I caught myself
Praying for sunshine.
 
Remember the children's rhyme?
    "Rain, rain go away.
    Come again some other day."
 
Our best guess these days
Is that it's not a spirit
But a thing called "carbon footprint"
That affects the weather.
 
So a chant won't change the weather.
But a million people
Making choices about
When to drive or what to eat
Just might.
 
I wonder:
Do the ones who say,
"Global warming a a myth,"
Also pray for rain?



27 August 2009 (unfinished)

by Bill Cattey

Notes on this poem.

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