Listening to the opening ceremonies of the Paris talks on French radio on this pre-dawn\u00a0morning, I remembered a poem I wrote years ago, & want to repost here today:<\/p>\n
[Intro\u00eft to my Purgatory]<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n the biggest lie is<\/span><\/p>\n that we were kicked out<\/span><\/p>\n of Paradise<\/span><\/p>\n Paradise. No one. Not<\/span><\/p>\n even ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n the place. Shat on the floor<\/span><\/p>\n of paradise.<\/span><\/p>\n not get kicked out <\/span><\/p>\n of Paradise. We turned<\/span><\/p>\n have always lived in.<\/span><\/p>\n The only place we have<\/span><\/p>\n Paradise. We have<\/span><\/p>\n no other, garden or<\/span><\/p>\n is Paradise. This<\/span><\/p>\n now. We have shat on.<\/span><\/p>\n Call him Noone. Noone<\/span><\/p>\n is to blame.<\/span><\/p>\n Noone cleaned it up.<\/span><\/p>\n Noone is to blame.<\/span><\/p>\n \n<\/blockquote>\n And to reiterate what I quoted yesterday on FB from a Naomi Klein and Jason Box article\u00a0in the New Yorker:<\/p>\n \u201cA climate summit taking place against the backdrop of climate-fuelled violence and migration can only be relevant if its central goal is the creation of conditions for lasting peace. That would mean making legally enforceable commitments to leave the vast majority of known fossil-fuel reserves in the ground. It would also mean delivering real financing to developing countries to cope with the impacts of climate change, and recognizing the full rights of climate migrants to move to safer ground. \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Listening to the opening ceremonies of the Paris talks on French radio on this pre-dawn\u00a0morning, I remembered a poem I wrote years ago, & want to repost here today: [Intro\u00eft to my Purgatory] the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1117,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-poem","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13860"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13867,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13860\/revisions\/13867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nno one kicked us out of<\/span><\/p>\n
\nWe did. We did besmirch<\/span><\/p>\n
\nWe did. This is the truth. We did<\/span><\/p>\n
\nagainst paradise, the place we<\/span><\/p>\n
\nand which therefore has to be<\/span><\/p>\n
\ncity, steppe or town. This here<\/span><\/p>\n
\nNo one kicked us out. No one.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nWe shat all over the place.<\/span><\/p>\n