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Here’s a list of events from the world
This is how the news unfurled
for the 2018 calendar year
in locations around our sphere
January – Dream Act in jeopardy for kids of immigrants
February – Florida shooting of high school students
March – Northern white rhino becomes deceased
April – Castro brothers’ Cuban reign has ceased
May – Lava floods in Hawaii cause evacuations
June – U.S./North Korea summit may spur relations
July – Scientists discover Mars has a subglacial lake
August – A trillion dollar earning is the Apple Inc. take
September – Fire destroys the National Museum of Brazil
October – Pittsburgh synagogue reports 11 are killed
November – California wildfires become the deadliest
December – Parisian protest riots by Yellow Vests
Yes, yes, our old world is in turmoil
tsunami in the sea and fire on the soil
Natural calamities may destroy Planet Earth
if despots and mass killers don’t ruin it first
Yes, yes, I love my calendar world
but its events keep my heart in a whirl
Every hour, every day, I hold it dear
every week and every month of the year
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