Machiavellian Palm Beach
Years in the future
After temperature cycles
Have turned again
Rendering the world's water
Once more secured in ice
There will eventually melt and emerge
The quintessential example
Of a once starry-eyed human anomaly
The mind-wreckage of a beached id
An indulgent instinctual force of self-centered importance
A way of life centered on vacuous awareness
A swirling denouement of greed's ultimate message
Adrift
Desolate trappings
A stranded boat dock
Erupted drainage pipes of aberrant waste
Concrete and razor wire caltrops of anti-paparazzi defenses
Multiple luxury crafts grounded and upended
A swirling flotsam of human and gold plated remains
Held in arrhythmic motion
Despotic spoil heaps of extravagant fantasy
A modern palace foundation left with only one ocean view
Its own festooned tower under Nature’s siege
Hopefully…
Melting continues
Like any coldness subjected to enough heat
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And I saw the Congresswoman from the South Beach area saying that the poor residents of the Seaside condos were hurting because those condos comprised most of their net worth. If I were to advise anyone living in South Florida, I would tell them to sell while the market is hot and then move in land somewhere where you are not in a floodplain or on tornado alley.
But as your prosetry illustrates, in time, nature will right itself without us. And I mean that literally unless we all have the personal and political will to change our ways as soon is we possibly can.
Ron