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Rated: E · Poetry · Environment · #1823462
Mother Nature's mood swings.
Symptoms within this 'cystic cell',
where *People* are as parasites,
stems from a sickness to outsell.

Once a seeable paradise
is now in shock, disturbed & gray.
You could say impaired at a price.

Some put stock in uncertain ways
for fillin' drums of Texas tea,
though toxic when it dirties bays.1

While 'deep drilling' affects the sea
and stock markets' daily status,
patrons deal with excessive fees?

Woe are we, once the globe's axis
upchucks as if it were repulsed
which often sow seeds of sadness.

Whensoever the *Earth* convulse
waves of unfortunate events,
rarely will help unearth a pulse;

for instance, look at Port-au-Prince.
They're injured, dead or at a lost.2
Read up on the important print.

Plenty of viewers pledge their troth,
seeing as there is life to nurse,
for donatin' through the cross.

Flocks of folks, quakin' in Christchurch,3
were mindfully keepin' close watch
on their *Beach* midst heightened alerts.

There are risks, of countries awash,
on the horizon past the strand,
due to the blue onrushing slosh.

The waves that had engulfed Japan4
and the following grief it wreaked,
was one of those days, understand?

Week by week a *Nuclear* leak5
has added fuel to the *Fire*
(to the dismay of ecofreaks).

Set in motion is nature's ire
ahead of her fatal tallies,
'cause we've all a date to expire.

Seeing that tornado alley
has now changed into a turnpike,
there is no safe room to rally.

The forecast takes its toll on life6
whenever 'gloomy gales' are sprung,
amidst jet streams, to churn out strikes.

Assuming that the knell has rung,
these acts of God beg the question:
"Have we outstayed our welcome?"

Footnotes
1  This alludes to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill from 4/20/2010 to 7/15/2010 where weathered oil was sighted in West Bay, Texas on 10/23/2010.
2  This alludes to the 2010 Haiti 7.0 Earthquake and the Haitian government's report of 300,000 injured, 316,000 casualties, and 1,000,000 rendered homeless in the quake's aftermath.
3  This alludes to the February & June 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand Earthquakes and the following fear of a tsunami.
4  This alludes to the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami on 3/11/2011.
5  This alludes to the level 7 meltdowns, at three reactors, in the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
6  This alludes to the April 25-28, 2011 Super Outbreak. These widespread storms produced 336 confirmed tornadoes & caused 322 weather-related fatalities in the U.S. and Canada.

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