Anticipating
global warming, melting polar ice caps, and all the cataclysm that would come
with it, Logan Vandermar bought a tract of muddy land near the shores of his
hometown, and built a boat dock. People laughed and called him a fool but he
shrugged them off. When the waters rose, they would be clamoring for a docking
slip on his property, what with all the other piers having been submerged when
the poles thawed. He built a boat in the mudflats too, hoping to attract early
investors. The investors laughed as well. Still, he waited patiently and
tracked every unusually hot day, every unseasonal tornado, and every record
temperature to remind himself that his day in the sun was coming. Maybe not
today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon. The oceans would rise and they would come
and ask to rent a boat slip, and then it would be his turn to laugh.
Originally mailed to M.T. in Seoul, South Korea
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