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From the Editors: This poem was submitted to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Katrina disaster and the people’s heroic struggle.
Searise
In a thousand years
the seas have risen
six to eight inches.
In this century’s hundred,
they’ll rise at least three feet.
They’ll swallow thousands of square miles
of earth,
displace millions of our species,
uproot countless others—or worse.
Human ingenuity and invention,
in the greedy grip of capital,
warps and devours life and nature.
To save nature,
end unnatural capitalism.
-Felix Cortes
