I am not a scientist
& the earth is flat.
I am not a scientist
& climate change is bunk.
I am not a scientist
& coal mining does not cause black lung.
I am not a scientist
& embryonic stem cells are off limits.
I am not a scientist
& the way to defeat ISIS is nucular.
I am not a scientist
& we need hydraulic fracturing.
I am not a scientist
But, some say, a bald-faced denier,
a loyal Republican liar.
George Held, a regular contributor to The New Verse News, has a new book out from Poets Wear Prada, Culling: New & Selected Nature Poems.