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100 Days of Outrage Collective Piece

Over 80 poets contributed to this 260 stanza piece for the 100 Days of Outrage. Read this at poetry readings and events; far and wide. Spread its influence by helping to get it out there!



100 Days of Outrage: Collective Piece


I.

Black blood spewing from her womb
covetous children frolicking in corporate toxins
her ocean blue breast milk
curdled in clots of afterbirth.

Her ovaries won't recycle...oxygen smothered
with slick finger prints of hesitation
while suckling’s wash breathless on sea shores
we live to ignore our fate.

Somehow our greatest fear
is not the devastation
for the current and coming generation
Word on the street...

ARE NOT the plans for the ocean life that will cease,
NOT of the contamination that can consume
the water we drink but the increase
...in the cost of crab meat.

BP
with a bloody purpose,
money murkers,
murder civilian workers,

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Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
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