chilly spring

we haven't broken 70 degrees
yet this spring
read nothing like this has occurred since 1951

guess global warming
has it's up
and down moments

we just better hurry
and land on mars
so we can get busy
and mess up another
planet
before this one self destructs

how will we behave
when we run into
another life source
when we can't even get
along with our own species?
pondered my daughter

i hope they are a bit nobler than we