Botched Nose Job: Poetry and Plastic

Fucking With Nature

Due to recent fires scorching along the freeways and the rain

that pored over night mudslide warnings in effect the reporter

at the side of a hill reports as he pokes and prods yanking some

brush from the already traumatized soil this thing can go at any moment

he says and I think of liquefaction and how great that would actually be

and how the Geology professor from my community college course

would hold his gut laughing watching the news: don’t fuck with nature.