Baptism
California's water conservation habits, refined and improved over five years of drought, are quickly evaporating.
The Mercury News, March 10, 2018
This is the start of our greed, the need to pierce our thirst. If our graven idol be carved, then let our knives carve deeply without hitting bone. Who are we, if not addicts who seed clouds above the milk powder desert to hydrate its dust into a living thing? Serpentine thirst cauterizes our insides so we are cotton-mouthed, unable to swig from sources we didn’t hustle. From our obsession with golf greens and swimming pools emanates full immersion; our bodies crown at the surface chokered in dregs from the aqueduct floor.