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Podcast: JOHNSTONE
Episode: Treasure
Description: The dolphins are getting Alzheimer's from algae blooms
caused by warming waters and toxic runoff
and you could see the bloodstains in SudanÂ
from space.
The cobalt is mined by children
and the music is made by robots
and the grownups are wondering
where the fireflies went.
It is an elephant with an eyepatch and a prosthetic leg.
It's a freshly emptied bed in the nursing home.
A hand offers you pills to numb the dissonance,
but you swat it away and howl naked in the thorns.
Somewhere there's an ibis on a pianoÂ
in a junkyard in the rain.
So...