may we all be heard
words are bells
let them ring!


Thom World Poet Austin, Texas, USA
Global Radical networker and activist for promoting the live Creative Arts,
at every possible opportunity, especially in his home-city, Austin, Texas, USA


Friday, July 16, 2010

CONSIDERING THE POSSIBILITIES FOR EXTINCTION

Oil from the Gulf has started to seep
into these black lined pages.It is dense and viscous
angry and burning.Smoke from needless fires.
Some say a hole has opened up in our guilt.
Others want more drilling immediately!
They embrace this consuming dinosaur Corporation
like the British Government pensioners
They say we are all dependent
that we will never have alternatives
that these fires will burn till August
that every bird cleaned is a new job gained
that throwing PR at Louisiana will clean images
that no one knows how much has been lost
One thing is certain....Crop Circles.!
They form harmonic yantras in fields on farms
with strange and haunting patterns.Messages?IGNORE THEM!
They do not speak of oil nor our need for cars-
superhighways,tolls,death and gridlock
They do not poison air ,water,earth ,seas
What do they know of our collective despair/our death wishes?
Until feet and bicycle have replaced infernal combustion machine
i will not dream of smiling .I distract myself
I watch a cartoon disaster special effect movie-
ARMAGEDDON.2012.They speak to me from Lost Angeles
Carbon footprints,global warnings,greenhouse effect?
FORGET ABOUT IT! Sit back and watch REALITY TV
as it unfolds on BPs website-like black gold
being siphoned off for profit while billions fear
the statistics of a Burning Planet.
Bhopal.

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