I'm a Little Down

Here's day twenty's submission of NaPoWriMo (a poem a day for the month of April in honor of National Poetry Month). Earth Day is in two days.

I’m a Little Down Today

Last month, the CEO of Exxon-Mobile said,

“I’m in the business of making money,”

as he told the environmentalists

to go fuck themselves

in so many words.

The ice caps continue to thaw.

Monsanto and the chemical corporations

are happy to defy the impotent EPA

while they manufacture pesticides

and GMO food, but don’t want to tell us

what it is that we’re eating.

Nuclear power is green energy?

The petroleum industry has made

so much throw-away plastic

that researchers can’t NOT find any

pieces of it in the Pacific ocean,

no matter where they sample.

The Great Barrier Reef is dissolving

from ocean acidity.

Honeybees are dying from the use of

unregulated pesticides and herbicides,

and as a result, the pollination of crops

like London Bridge, is falling, falling.

And we can’t pass a law that regulates

who can buy a gun?

All fall down.