Don’t Gaslight Me

(a prose poem)

Photo by Julien L on Unsplash

Don’t Gaslight Me about global warming being “fake news” when it’s early March and the crabapple in our back yard is about to burst into full bloom when it’s not supposed to bloom in this region until April, or even late April or even May, and short of a gigantic volcanic explosion or the big meteor hitting the planet, no human being should be able to perceive climate change in their lifetime because the…