Please sir, may I have some more?

June 14, 2010 by catvibe

“Please sir, may I have some more?” asked Oliver.

A simple thing, we’ll take a drill

And bore it through the earth, we will

Five miles ‘neath the ocean floor

Because in there, we heard there’s more

More of what we want in life

A kind of ease that’s free from strife

To help with chores we hate to do

And ease of flight for me and you

We’ll take the ease and make it such

That in our lives, we’ll find it much

Indeed we’ll see that when we look

It’s even in the things we cook

It’s on our hair and in our clothes

It wraps the water in the hose

And all around the house we see

The benefits that make us free

The bags we bring home from the store

The stuff in closets, more and more

Until we can not see the sky

For all the stuff we’ve piled so high

And when it breaks, it matters not

That it will never come to rot

Because that’s just the way things are

Just throw it out, away and far

Because it seems we can get more

By drilling through the ocean floor

But know this now and know it well

We’ve opened up the gates to hell

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June 14, 2010 by Karen

Cat, this is wonderful! It’s almost Seussian in its rhyme scheme and so damned serious in its subject that the two make a startling conjunction. You need to send this to these two sites: Poets for Living Waters and The Black Flood. (Google them – but I know the Flood is a dot net, not a dot com). I have a poem on both of these sites, and I think they would love this one.

Brava, Cat!
June 14, 2010 by Lindy

Grrreat poem! You’re certainly in the stream of conscious thought here. Rhymes beautifully.
June 14, 2010 by catvibe

@karen, thank you for those sites, I am definitely going to do that. I had to do something to combat the complete obsession with this I have going on in my mind right now. Creativity is a blessing.

@Lindy, thanks! Stream of oil-ness.
June 15, 2010 by Rick

Hello Cat- Well done! Nice to see a poet with a social conscience.
June 15, 2010 by Aniket

It has the perfect rhyme and rhythm. Karen, Joaquin and you have done great to plead against this horror. “Until we cannot see the sky – For all the stuff we’ve piled so high” is an epic line!
June 17, 2010 by Margaret

Excellent poem Cat.

If only we humans could stop being so greedy. You’ve brought across an important message here.

Keep up the fight!
June 17, 2010 by Catvibe

Rick, Aniket, Margaret, it is so great to see you guys! Blessings to you, we are all in this together.

*Hugs*
June 18, 2010 by jozien

You say this so well.
andl i ask what can i do?
i wish i knew
June 27, 2010 by Rick

Hey, Cat! Where you been?
June 30, 2010 by joaquin

love this! setting these ominous words in such a lilting rhyme is perfect – and the rhyme itself is fantastic – like karen said, suessian.

i know we love to blame the big companies and the government for things like this, but it’s true we don’t have much of a problem with it as long as we’re getting what we want. until something goes horribly wrong, of course.

brilliant, unflinching work.
July 1, 2010 by catvibe

Jozien – It is so difficult to see and feel and not be able to do much but protest. It is ubiquitous.

Rick – Hi you! *hugs*. Off enjoying summer for the most part, my son is here and I’m being very involved in the world beyond computers.

Joaquin – That’s the thing, isn’t it? And how short will our memories be when this thing is over. It saddens me.

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