This 1988 poem deals with man's failure to take care of the planet. It was published in the San Fernando Poetry Journal, Volume X, No. 1, p. 15, Editor Richard Kloke.

Hi Mom!
by
Francis W. Alexander

On that fateful day
when all is or was red
and some privileged
seek escape
like the inhabitants of pompeii
while relatively in time
some of the unfortunates
walk around like zombies;
no one asked
no one.
Nobody asked mother nature
how she would feel.