Let The Whales Fix It

[Lightning Rod]

Let The Whales Fix It

They've punched a hole in the world
our globe is deflating, bleeding out
the grease of life floats like a tumor
oysters are fried and shrimps are boiled
playing with guns we're shot in the foot
can't plug it with money or old ideas
leaking like a hemophiliac on fire
we stand stupid in quicksand singing
songs of the deep not known to whales

derricks like waterbugs skate on the sea
exploding cold as profit on the bottom line
thar she blows spitting balls of wax
Moby Dick can fix it with a baleen smile,
a patch of excuses and a Coppertone tan
mix it with vinegar and derivatives
that's the dressing the whales enjoy

Orcas gather like toothsome nuns
too late for transfusions, time to entube
treasures, pleasures and drastic measures
the world goes slowly flat, oozes lymph
small fishes flip on the beaches frying
even the algae are obese and greasy
whales once cornered the market on oil
now they laugh at our extinction

The Himalayas hiss and sink to the Hindu Cush
like a punctured souffle shrinking flat
the world is getting soft as a warm cheese
deflating, leaking ambergris and essence
the price of gas is embarrassed in free fall
the whales swim lubricated in doom
slick as death the planet shrinks
will the whales save us with their sperm?

[Steve Plonk]

L-Rod, A Most informative, sarcastic, parodic poem I've read
in a long while. Keep those cards and letters flowing
into the canyon of the net.

[stilltrucking]

Let The Whales Fix It

What a great title.

[revolutionrabbit]

use Queenqueg like a bell jar
dump out poor Queenqueg
and use that floating bench mark
that dark dash between here
and never there, between
reality, and history
use that Ishmael's luck
yes let the "savage" back into the sea
and use his specimen box like a magic
one, to saw the white goddess in half
in illusion only, and use the illusion to
cover the black mess of war for war's sake
and then plunge Ahab's harpoon into the
heart of the darkness that bleeds forever

[judih]

wish i could pull the plug
let the foul swirl down the drain
nothing but bright lights
and footage
another hollywood sham
another disaster saved by bruce willis
swashbuckled and sealed


whales cry for mercy
sisterhood knows
tears don't do shit

[saw]

yea clay, corporate greed is boundless, it recognizes no borders, sees no boundaries in it's quest for record profit, an addiction, in my mind far worse than any opiate.....fuck the planet, fuck us, money is the god they pray to, and their crusades will doom us humans to be the next source of oil to the aliens that find us buried in boiling goo....

well written my friend, poetic and prophetic !

[stilltrucking]

<center>Back in the USSR boys</center>



Once the world's fourth largest lake, the mighty Aral Sea

It is more than corporate greed steve.


It is man, have we not become as gods?
We can even move mountains in Appalachia.
Oh sister will you weep for us?

[mnaz]

good christian enterprise hath dominion over the earth (and the whole thing will be over soon anyway, so what the hell).

I shouldn't say things like that. amazing stuff, LRod. I'm floored.

[Lightning Rod]

Thank you guys for adding your thoughts and verses. This whole thing is very troubling to me. I weep for the poor Earth which is hemorrhaging.

[justwalt]

creation is a continuous process, unstoppable once set in motion.
but the earth never loses... not in a million million lifetimes anyway.

such a beautiful planet though... she's seen it all before, and has
shrugged it off in a few hundred millennia or so... no sweat.

lifeforms will adjust or die, as it has been forever.
who believes that we have a right to exist?

I love this write, lightning, it needs to be carved on a cave wall.

but the human impact on earth doesn't worry me, for earth's sake.
neither does the earth's impact on humans. it is what it is...
sad that we still shit in our own front yard.

walt