Al Gore’s new book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis includes at least one poem. Some seem to love it, others seem to hate it. The poem is about climate change, and can be found below in its entirety:

One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun

Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea

Snow glides from the mountain
Ice fathers floods for a season
A hard rain comes quickly

The dirt is parched
Kindling is placed in the forest
For the lightning’s celebration

The shepherd cries
The hour of choosing has arrived
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