Frenemy

By Gary Beck

Sometimes weather is a friend,
sometimes it’s an enemy.
When we need rain for crops
and it rains helpfully
our lives are bettered.
But when it rains, rains, rains,
floods devastate our land
destroying property, lives.
The variety of climate change
brings bigger storms,
longer droughts, dangerous changes,
that protected city dwellers
are frequently sheltered from,
grown oblivious
to the perils of nature.

 

Gary Beck from U.S. has spent most of his adult life as a theater director and worked as an art dealer when he couldn't earn a living in the theater. He has also been a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His original plays and translations of Moliere, Aristophanes and Sophocles have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction 4nd essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and his published books include 33 poetry collections, 14 novels, 3 short story collections, and many more.