[Diogenes Of Pumpkintown]

Originally posted by Fljotsdale: Something I wrote a good many years ago, but it sort of seems appropriate…. And since the Silver one is posting HER poetry….. Havoc 20th century: In a normal, filthy, city street A pigeon, traffic-dodging, Pecks at a bag of oil-grimed chips Spilling, gutter-lodging… Pristine Alaska’s sickened sea Vomits a viscous weight – A burden of oily dead and dying: An obscene human freight… Rare sea otters, fur oil-spiked; Razor-bills flapping, crying: All fighting, panic surging ‘Midst spoiling riches dying… Rolling clouds of smoke red-lit: Funeral pyres of forests flamed for greed, Blot out the sun and rise high up To join the ozone-eating cfc’s… Let’s watch the ‘Northern’ lands wax fat On famine and war in the ‘south’ – As factory filth kills our rivers And government ‘greens’ with its mouth… Amoral men with munitions for sale Abetted by government favour, Sell weapons and tanks to killers who prey In the name of some bloody ‘saviour’… The Powers shout “Peace and Prosperity!” ‘Midst hatred and death of all reason: But children are crying in vain In the tatters of ‘civilisation’. 21st century Nothing changes.

Powerful poem, Ms. Fljotsdale.