Three communists at a table
Discuss the future of planet Earth.
Your family back in Vietnam
Are struggling, the rice is drowning,
No food, no livelihood.
The sea rises relentless to the mountains
And there is no refuge.
You want to scream
To the blithe Americans
Sitting in Environmental Science class
That this is real—
Yet here you are beneath a lamp
As though none of this matters.
I am singing you redemption songs
As I walk home
From your dorm
Telling you not to die.
I blow bubbles
And sometimes they pop
And sometimes float up,
Swerve away
I am sending my thoughts like bubbles,
And sometimes they reach you.
Anna Marie Hamilton (Maryann Valerio) is an emerging author of literary speculative fiction for both YA and adult audiences. She holds an M.S. in Materials Science and was enrolled in an MFA program in fiction at Ashland University. She is previously published in 365 Tomorrows, Write Guys Podcast, Chaotic Merge Magazine, and Quartz Literary Review. She lives in the wilds of Oregon with her one cat and 80 plushies.
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