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  • Global Warming Blues
  • Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie (bio)

The ocean had a laughwhen it saw the shoreI said the ocean had a big big laughwhen it saw the shoreit pranced on up the boardwalkand pummeled my front door

There’s no talking to the waterfull of strength and saltno, there’s no bargaining with waterso full of strength and saltI’m a Mama working two jobsglobal warming ain’t my fault

I said Please water, I recyclegot a garden full of greensI said looka here I compostgot a garden full of greenswater say big men drill and oil spillwe both know what that means [End Page 178] now my town is just a riverbodies floatin, water’s highmy town is just a riverbut I’m too darn mad to cryseem like for Big Men’s livinlittle folks have got to die

seems like for Big Men’s livinlittle folks have got to die [End Page 179]

Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie

Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie is the author of Karma’s Footsteps (Flipped Eye, 2011) and the poetry editor of the literary magazine African Voices. In 2013 she was one of five featured artists in Queens Art Express sponsored by the Queens Council on the Arts. Tallie’s work and creative life are the subject of the short film “I Leave My Colors Everywhere” which made its U.S debut at the Reel Sisters Film Festival in 2011. A student of herbalism and agriculture, Tallie was awarded a Queens Council on the Arts grant in 2010 for “Osain’s Children,” her work on herbalists of the African Diaspora.

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