If the climate deniers are right
and it’s all a trivial matter of semantics
(I’m playing devil’s advocate),
let’s just go home. Leave a few romantics
to their hopeful protests. Light a new fire.
In Agbogbloshie, they’re doing just that:
burning the plastic off of copper wire.
It’s got nothing to do with the climate, that.
Besides, it’s not my wire that’s burning,
not my appliance plugged into the grid,
not my government that’s not for turning.
It’s not my chart, my takeover bid.
I simply cannot see these things connected.
If I did, I would be disaffected.