29. United Arab Emirates
If intelligent life from galaxies beyond
looked down on earth
and espied Dubai,
what (on earth) would they make of it?
Green grass in waterless deserts;
Palm frond-shaped islands recreating ecologies that never existed;
Improbable spires of glass and concrete grasping for the skies:
Nature subverted … temporarily … by Man’s denial.
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