Poem: "Everything Goes"

This poem came out of the July 21, 2015 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from Anthony Barrette. It has been sponsored by Anthony & Shirley Barrette.

Warning: This poem discusses natural disasters.

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Cultural Pyramids

I have long said that the pyramid of needs is only one way of organizing those values.  Check out the Blackfoot version.

For me, the need to know and understand is fundamental.  Social connections are luxuries from a philosophic point of view, although in this context I need people for practical concerns; but I just don't have as much intrinsic NEED for other people as most folks seem to.  And my transcendence can't turn off no matter what I or anyone else may do; like my sense of self, it is indelible.  The base of my pyramid is, more explicitly than for most people although it is true for everyone, the biosphere of the Earth.  No biosphere, no nothing.  Because I know that, my behavior is very different from people who place their own body's needs at the base.

They're all just concepts.  You can prioritize them in any order you want.  Some orders are more effective than others.  I'm not terribly impressed with the planetwide results of personal-body-needs as a foundation.

Gloucester Addiction Relief

Here's an excellent way to reduce the damage done by addiction. 

Terramagne does things like this.  They put more effort into crime prevention, partly because the crimes can be a lot worse than here if they involve superpowers.  

Fishbowl Sales Update

The ticker for the Poetry Fishbowl is broken, not on my site but on the provider site.  :(  Hopefully they will fix whatever they broke in their latest update that is trying to offer us new buttons that don't work.

Current tally = $562.50

Sold poems: 
"Silkbag" (freebie)
"Coloring In"
"Everything Goes"
"Hearing What Isn't Said"
"Silken Wings"
"Humbug or Hope"

All perks have been activated.  Tally is still open through Sunday night though, and will be closed on Monday morning.  I am continuing to post sponsored poems.  Today's project is making spaghetti sauce though, so my computer time is less than usual. 

Poem: "Habitat Foreclosure"

This poem is from the July 7, 2015 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from thnidu. It has been sponsored by LJ user Ng_moonmoth.


"Habitat Foreclosure"
-- a vembletroon


Nincompoops in power cannot do the math of water shortages:
It's farms and factories at fault, not homes.
Take this to the bank: habitat foreclosure is at hand, aquifers running dry, glaciers absent without leave, and doom gathering in every empty lake.
Fracked! Cracked! Thanks to this, the water that remains is no longer potable.
Idiots.


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Notes:

"Habitat foreclosure" is a phrase I coined some years ago to describe situations where environmental changes make an area unsuited for human residence. This is happening in parts of China, Russia, Africa, etc. where settlements are being abandoned due to drought, dust storms, and other problems which have exceeded feasible coping strategies.

Read about the vembletroon form.

The West Coast drought is behind the water shortages, but the highest demand is not from individual use but from industrial and agricultural uses.  Therefore the problem cannot be solved by individuals or cutting municipal supplies.  

Poem: "By Our Limited Human Standards"

This poem is spillover from the July 21, 2015 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from LJ user Ng_moonmoth, ellenmillion, and origfic_bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by Ng_moonmoth. It belongs to the series Polychrome Heroics.

EDIT 9-25-15: For a followup, see the demifiction "In The Soup" by Ng_moonmoth.

Warning: The following poem contains canon-typical violence, hostile language, boundary violations, and other minor mayhem. No supervillains or would-be heroes were seriously injured in the making of this poem.

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