2 years after the Deepwater Gulf Oil Spill, the first criminal charges have been prosecuted against a former BP engineer for destruction of evidence, many fish sport open sources and visible black streaks across their bodies, and billion dollar lawsuits begin to resolve…
They’re called “Plumes,”
Bubbling up from beneath, like a spewing Red Death
‘Neath the surface of the Gulf waters.
Although it’s thick crude it’s not Black,
But blood red. And,
I am in no mood
For games and fun, so
What is on the run, or Who?
Surely not th’executives of Great Oil, no noddy
Yet all that in Nature a corporate Body
Can possibly despoil–
In the swiftest of speeds.
the Manatee, Pelican, Cormorant, Tile fish in their
needs,
red Snapper, Croaker, Mackerel and Jack–
One they are gone, will they ever come back?
Sea gull, Tern, Sandpiper too,
Once the oysters and mudbugs get shot
Full poison, they might as well be THROUGH.
Forget the platters heaped with taste and flavour
At Commander’s and Galatoire.
Acme Seafood stands empty, since th’ entire Gulf
Has become a petroleum
“Abbatoir.”
That the French for slaughterhouse, Brother.
sister, hear our cry!
Not till these wells run dry
can our Beloved Gulf run clean and free,
So, when shall that blessed day
Be?
