Deadline Poet / October 29, 2024

Climate Change

Calvin Trillin
A neighborhood in North Tampa flooded by Milton's storm surge.
A neighborhood in North Tampa flooded by Milton’s storm surge.(Pedro Portal / Miami Herald / Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Yes, Asheville’s devastated by a storm.
And Phoenix? Hot enough to kill some folks.
Extreme events must make it hard to say
That climate change is nothing but a hoax.
Or do they?

Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”

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