.<\/p>\n
As sea levels rise, so also..<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
I am truly sorry to say this, but as
\nthe globe warms, so warms the cube..<\/p>\n
A heatwave emanating from a black stone
\nsweeps the desert:
\nwill hit and kill pilgrims, is
\nalready hitting and killing handfulls
\namong the millions of pilgrims
\nas they approach the stone,
\nbut there will be \u2013
\nI am truly sorry to say this,
\nmay God forfend it —
\nthere will be disasters at the stone,
\nhundreds, thousands dead of sheer heat exhaustion,
\nand the government will order
\nstricter controls on pilgrims,
\nthat they be in best health,
\nphysician verified,
\nthat they carry much water
\nagainst dehydration,
\nwishing the sun itself were other
\nthan it is, under the mercy,
\nwhere no legislation can forestall it,
\nattempting traffic control
\nagainst a myridad photons, light
\nin the niche for lights.<\/p>\n
Pilgrimage is compulsory, thus
\nafter the city has been shut down,
\nthe last strays and hiders
\npried from their places by special police,
\nsome few from around the gasping
\nglobe still will strive
\nwith devotion
\nto make their way toward Mecca
\nand the cube on the globe,
\nthe black stone,
\nsome, after the last police have withdrawn,
\nstill arriving, circling the stone,
\nholding tight to the thought that Ali
\nwas born within the cube,
\nathirst with devotion, with dehydration
\nablaze, pressing in to die
\nwhere Ali was born,
\nand one, one shall be the last to die there.<\/p>\n
I grieve for that last, now,
\nsome few decades ahead of the obvious,
\nto which we are oblivious —
\nthe oncoming, blasphemous, wave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
. As sea levels rise, so also.. * I am truly sorry to say this, but as the globe warms, so warms the cube.. A heatwave emanating from a black stone sweeps the desert: will hit and kill pilgrims, is already hitting and killing handfulls among the millions of pilgrims as they approach the stone, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,793,753,741,786,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-global-warming","category-islam","category-poetry","category-saudi-arabia","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56856"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65961,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56856\/revisions\/65961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}