Thursday, August 27, 2020

Torku from stories in today's New York Times.

 



Amazon.com unveiled Amazon Halo, a health and wellness tracker that the company said also tracks its users’ emotions

track emotions of a cactus
in the brittle sunlight of August
to impress the healthy green moss.




Using tax dollars to move whole communities out of flood zones, an idea long dismissed as radical, is swiftly becoming policy, marking a new and more disruptive phase of climate change.

a single shutter flaps in the silent breeze:
a green frog rests on a yellow lily pad on a sofa:
finches drown at their bird feeders.




New Video Shows Largest Hydrogen Bomb Ever Exploded

flying in the dark of day
a moth collapses on a cold ember
glowing sickish orange. 




As a sale of the National Enquirer collapses, some wonder if the tabloid is too hot to handle

a blue flame licks at the temple of folly:
as the weeds burn but are never consumed:
a muffled tocsin in the summer silence.


Congress left town and let jobless benefits lapse. Unemployed Americans say they won’t forget it.

The rich are a minority so small we hardly see 'em/trouble is, we all would very much just like to be 'em/And if we can't we toady to their ostentatious whims/while the poor and needy must make do with pious hymns/If Congress can't be bothered with the problems of a pauper/it's time their reelection plans all now should come a cropper!


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