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On Wed, 3 Jun 2026 06:06:26 -0400, The True Melissa
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thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
Apocalyptic haiku. How interesting.
Thank you. I have strange dreams. Sometimes, they are printable.
It's an ice apocalypse.
They come. They go. The ice *always* returns.
Until the day when there is no water.
Today's Weather.
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Red sky unending.
The crackling mantle unheard.
There are no waters.
- J.
It's not what the survivalists predicted
Way back in the Ancient Times, around the 1960's, *everyone* was
predicting a global Ice Age and it was coming up about next Thursday.
Round about ten minutes after The Gulf Stream dies.
Well, everyone save a few Climate Science crank scientists and some Meteorologists. Those guys were round the twist, out of their tree and suggesting that something called "gullible worming" might happen and
the planet might become like Venus, only hotter. No one bought into
that trash, of course. Only nutjobs would think that an increase in
atmospheric carbon dioxide could affect *anything*. I mean, come on,
it didn't do much during the Carboniferous, did it? :)
-- "The
roving gangs never came."
In today's UKland, there are cities where houses get robbed twice per
night and places that *never* see invasive crime. That's pretty much
the same pattern as seen everywhere throughout all of History. Some of
us are lucky enough to live in the low-crime regions. No, I'm not
telling you where. I don't want you to give ideas to the chavs. :)
The distant city is dead, and the poet may not
even know why,
Sherlock was an idiot. Sometimes, the bloody dog is just sleeping.
My "guard-dog" used to sort of wake up, make a little woof then fall
back into her deep sleep whenever someone passed our house on the
footway outside. It was sort of cute but no one not sitting right next
to her would have heard it.
Life-forms are not reliable machinery. They take time off to watch
movies, read books and quietly woofle. It is astonishing when any of
them *ever* pay *any* attention to the real world.
but suddenly it's us against the night again.
Reality.
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It always has been.
It forever will be so.
Eternal Night will win.
- J.
"After the night, the dawn always comes." Somebody, once.
Yeah, right, tell me this when the universal CMBR reaches ten to the
minus two thousandth of a Kelvin.
And falling.
J.
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