Let No One Mourn the Bean
by J. Randal Matheny © 2011
They say that global warming
(Or, now, it's climate change),
From all the thermal storming,
Will profoundly rearrange The fragile growing season —
"The coffee plant is doomed!"
Some prophet had a vision
Of catastrophes that loomed. I doubt such lame forecasting,
Let no one mourn the bean;
How can the globe go fasting,
When the world runs on caffeine?
(Or, now, it's climate change),
From all the thermal storming,
Will profoundly rearrange The fragile growing season —
"The coffee plant is doomed!"
Some prophet had a vision
Of catastrophes that loomed. I doubt such lame forecasting,
Let no one mourn the bean;
How can the globe go fasting,
When the world runs on caffeine?
