California’s governor, in the third winter of this state’s drought,
has asked citizens to 1/5 of “your water use cut out.”
I’d already cut down my use of water from …..”not much” to “less”.
I’d urged my wife to do the same, which upset her, ….. I do confess.
Oh, she’d done some cutting back, but recently she did backslide.
If I told her again to not water her plants, she surely would have cried!
NOW, in daylight, I sometimes quietly pee behind an outdoor bush,
and, after dark, through the railing of our deck, my little pee-thing I do push.
When art is for life and not merely for art, fun and satire, are one of the strongest devices of social control and make a poem or a work of art, a reforming beauty. Your poem is a reforming beauty. I am a Pakistani, badly affected by shortage of energy and water. I watched a few pictures presenting various great cities of the world. by night. The last of this series was Karachi by night, and it was dark in toto, there was nothing to watch.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
As there is a finite amount of water on the heating planet Earth and ever more humans, even the first world has to make sacrifices during drought. Your conversational style was much appreciated.