in a room of “climate change activists”

my family drowns again

on a microphone for strangers

gnarled white hands grab everywhere

we’ll put you before the money pitch

on a microphone for strangers

I become expert of a tongue I do not speak

we’ll put you before the money pitch

tell them how your mom almost died

I become expert of a tongue I do not speak

my gnarled white hands grab everywhere

I tell them how my mom almost died

& my family drowns again.