THE VICTIMIZATION OF THE GULF

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JOURNAL # 38

ya know
I've been pondering over
all that nasty business
going on with B P
down in the Gulf
and how I sure can feel
the ocean's pain
what destructive stewards
we have become
allowing the world to be so
victimized by the needs and
greed of man
there must be a word for
the ecological raping man
does of his only habitat
oh wait
I know it
it's called
global warming
a euphemism
no doubt
as planetary rape
sounds way too terrifying
for the so called 'sensitive types'
to read up on about
hmmm
tell me
do you think there is such a thing
as
'a sensitive rapist'?
somehow
I'm seriously doubting it
so let's not even
get me on that tangent..............
(June 29, 2010 228am)

Author's Notes/Comments: 

written from my never ending disgust over the situation down in the Gulf of Mexico with B P oil and their 60 plus day equipment malfunction that is polluting and devouring innumerable species and wild life that likely will never be again. Man is the most dangerous animal there is to his Mother Earth. I should have titled this poem Maternal Homicide and that would have fit too. Deeply saddened and angry I wrote this from that angle.

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