Que Digo, Sera!
(With apologies to Doris Day)
When I was just a little boy
Scientists told us,
Listen and learn:
Smoke is reflecting
Warmth from the Earth;
Ice ages will return!
(Refrain)
Que digo, sera!
Whatever I say, will be!
The future is mine to see!
Que digo, sera!
When after school I watched the news,
They had Paul Ehrlich,
Here’s what he said:
Too many people!
Asia will starve!
Hundreds of millions dead!
Whatever I say, will be!
The future is mine to see!
Que digo, sera!
All of the movies that I watched
Said anti-commies
Would start a war.
Nuclear fallout
Would leave us scarred,
Mutants forevermore.
Whatever I say, will be!
The future is mine to see!
Que digo, sera!
Then in the magazines I read
Aerosol chlorine
Would be our bane,
Depleting ozone,
Passing UV:
Killing the whole food chain.
Whatever I say, will be!
The future is mine to see!
Que digo, sera!
I went to college where I learned
Resource depletion
Was just ahead!
Standards of living
Had already peaked!
So our professor said.
Whatever I say, will be!
The future is mine to see!
Que digo, sera!
When I grew up and went to work
These are the latest
Warnings I hear:
Carbon dioxide
Traps infrared!
Glaciers will disappear!
Whatever I say, will be!
The future is mine to see!
Que digo, sera!
But now I’m grown, I scratch my head;
All these Cassandras
Can’t catch a break!
Doom from all quarters
Never arrives.
Maybe it's all a fake?
(Final Refrain)
No se que sera.
I do not know what will be.
It beats the hell outa me.
No se que sera.
(Repeat Final Refrain, more raucously)
Thought this appropriate for Earth Day. Thanks for reading! For more of my doggerel, click here.
You can read "The Kings of the Corona", my well-reviewed, first and so-far only published story in TALES OF THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING. Another story of mine has been accepted for one of the Luna anthologies, soon to appear in the Superversive Press Planetary Anthology Series, and I have another couple stories in the works for submission to some of the other installments to that series.
