Song of the Climate Witches
Double down, retool and trouble
Status quo burn with carbon bubble
Instead of pledging future remakes
While our climate broils and bakes —
Thrive newts! don’t boil frogs —
Transform toxicant fossil fogs,
And with biomimicry
Trying and multi-solving
In a charm of powerful trouble,
We’ll guard our hell-broth cauldron.
Double double, exponential good trouble
Catastrophic success through the struggle
Cool it with the warmth of love
Then the charm is cast above.
— Adam Powers
Song of the Witches: “Double, double toil and trouble”
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (from Macbeth)
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.