Hurricanes are man-made catastrophes

Hurricanes are man-made catastrophes

Signs sent to us time to time

They say don’t live here

live up higher

leave these waters be

But leaders will be followed

and our minds are ceded to the

murky depths of mindlessness

descending into selfishness

and then arresting in the straits

of memory of how we always were.

Build elsewhere is the message

of the storms we call severe

and of the quakes we see as enemies

But secretly we root for these disasters

Call them acts of god

and reason is consigned to

the realm of the utopians

We do not ravage

It is Matthew

Oh the billions lost

How much would cost

a hundred years ago to say

we’ll let the shoreline be

Or even design sensiibly

today

Disaster is our easy ritual

to deny who we are

when we consider things