– from Look at This Blue –
Joshua Trees of the first vandalized during

                                        shutdown, national park defunding
1,200 square miles at risk

                                        high desert, 45 might as well have burned it all

rangy succulent majesty

                                        said to straddle Mohave and Colorado Deserts,

incoming spray-painting rocks,

                                        smiley face, THE 419, three underscores

                                                                   felling Joshuas to make off-roading roads,

so they could drive into sensitive areas

                                                                   where vehicles are banned”

by 2100 Climate Change rising temperatures

                                                                   may take it all, they’re hurrying along.

People climbed the massive junipers to break

                                                    branches for prohibited fires, it’s welcome shade now gone.
“there is no Plan B for our national parks” – Rand Abbott
                                        “Donald Trump is literally destroying America.” – Bill Prady tweeted