aloha poets,
Seabird cloud appears over a favorite urban surf spot. Enjoy!
South Coast Oil Fear Blues
Time zeroes in on a bad decisional choice
Fishing lodge culture stands in one voice
Rig platform once offered its telltale sign
They didn't listen, maybe greenback blind
Green sea turtle and dolphin paid the price
Pelican, gannet once made South Coast nice
Innkeepers shopkeepers in places once quaint
Spill millions of barrels of oil, hard not to taint
Sign a release now under conditions distraught
Food on your table proud big oil for you bought
Livability liability lives in your neighborhood
Put it back the way it was in little likelihood
They dig their relief well but no relief for you
Vast expanses South Coast now no longer blue
Food chains come to call onto your dinner plate
Fishermen's children, boat builders ponder fate
Fear of oil comes knocking at vacationer's door
Fun ties to the water, beach access a new chore
Unexpecteds still surface to trigger harsh words
Fishermen expect to pick tar balls, so many turds
The oil company came and sent oil into the waters
Livelihoods go extinct for your sons and daughters
Pull your last redfish speckled trout Barataria Bay
Old pirates, new horizons, ways of life drift away
copyright 7.20.10
all rights reserved
patrick adams
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