Day 20. One-fifth of the way through. Eighty days to go. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the (mis)administration so far, it is that money is, indeed, the grease that gets the gears of this government going.

Thoughts from the Mad Sonneteer:

Dollars and Sense

Some will deny facts; refute evidence;
Censure prophets whose message fuels outrage;
Ignore inevitable consequence;
In defiance of danger, disengage;
Celebrate dividend distributions
Over the desiccated bones of Earth,
And trumpet their only contribution:
Endlessly monetizing nature’s worth;
Squeezing every dollar from land and sea;
Placing short-term profit ‘bove common weal;
Assuming no blame for the bill they’ll leave:
A world’s future condemned without appeal.
   Disbelief does not make science untrue,
   But will compound the penalties accrued.

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© Bud Koenemund – The Mad Sonneteer – 2015

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You can find The Mad Sonneteer on Twitter at @TheMadSonneteer.
His blog is located at  MadSonneteer.blogspot.com

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For the first 100 days of the Trumpet administration, this blog will feature a new poem of protest, by my own hand and by others. They will be polished gems, or rough cut drafts of rage, or in process pieces searching for peace. They may be haiku or tanka, limericks or lyrics, verses free or fettered. If you would like to submit to this endeavor, please send an email, with poem saved as a word document (.docx) to waxyandpoetic AT gmail DOT com. All rights remain with the author. VISUAL ARTISTS ! Do you have something visually poetic that you’d like to submit? GO FOR IT!
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