This poem is not about the Cosmos
Or some dim idea people have
About a consciousness
Responsible for it all.
This is about the oil spilling (glug glug) into the gulf of mexico
Out of a pipe
Some greedy capitalist erected
To give themselves more money
Than they already have.
Can a new expletive be invented
To encompass British Petroleum
Or BP as all the media enumerate it?
Why does bi-polar spring to mind
More or less instantaneously?
This spill, Which continues As I write
Is going to force us
to find a new form of darker energy
to clean it up
or leave thousands of turtles,
Birds, Shrimp, and
Other forms of life
Coated with black and as they die. Why?
Because some greedy fools
Possibly in London
Wanted yet more money than they have
And can’t contain
The disaster they have created.
They can’t or won’t
Even accurately measure it yet.
Also many thousands of real humans
Will lose their livelihoods
From the latest, grossest
Example of upper class
Human greed and now
The very Republicans who
Killed all the regulation
That might have prevented
This calamity want
To blame Obama for it.
May they burn in Hells
Created by burning oil
For their shenanigans over many years.
Meanwhile, let’s put BP out of business
With lawsuits
We human beings are the only animals able to institute this re-action
So we must. No trust or
Business must be
Allowed to be too large
To shirk its responsibility
For spoiling yet another part
Of this Earth nobody owns
But everyone borrows
On a long-term loan
Without enough conditions
So British Petroleum
Soon enough
(We hope) will come
For you to pay up, shut up
(Shut the pipe, if possible)
And, potentially,
To disappear.

Tom Savage
5/23/10