IT'S COMING (Shadorma)

IT'S COMING (a shadorma)

It's coming
Slimy black monster
No escape
Not our fault
Tragedy wrought by their greed
Killing our homeland

(c) 2010 Amy Barlow Liberatore/Sharp Little Pencil

SLICK (For Linda and other Gulf Coast dwellers)

Poem by poem, many of our community are venting our anger about the Gulf Coast tragedy, which was completely preventable. It's true that writing poems does nothing to hands-on help victims or restore the environment; it's a way to vent. I post this is hope that it will get you on the phone to the White House and Congress, demanding heavier regulation of the oil industry; an end to off-shore drilling; and finally, get us walking to the store more often instead of driving.

SLICK

Big Oil greased the palms
of elected officials
Thousands weep; their lives destroyed

© 2010 Amy Barlow Liberatore/Sharp Little Pencil