The Governor has come with a mouthful of marbles,
but no Demosthenes, cornered before cameras
after meeting big farmers in dark back rooms,
eyes shift through closed doors, see San Francisco,
Santa Cruz. ‘Moonbeam’ in the 70s when he ran
with Ronstadt, he’s still undecided. Driest year
on record yet, it’s about the water that isn’t—
and who gets it, if he declares a drought. Playing
politics: pleasing people like cattle—who gets hay
little water irrigates. I am but dust on the window screen
to Pine Street, Exeter, 1958 when I shook his father’s hand,
watched California meet the future with accomplishment.
This is not poetry, nor a cry-baby rant. This is drought
no matter what we declare or who says it—lean
times when Mother Nature makes all the rules.
drycrikjournal 
Wonderful!
And still no answers advanced. I wrote to Obama at the beginning of his term to suggest an infrastructure project to put millions to work and help save our country from starvation. A system of canals, lakes and pipelines to collect the water from places that flood yearly and sending it to areas of drought and maybe even back into the Colorado River. Midwest, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma,California, Nevada Arizona etc would all benefit and new businesses, towns and recreation would develop along the way. More important than bridges and roads in my book. You can’t drive if you have starved to death. Water is the new gold. (not new to farmers and ranchers)
LikeLike