"epa" poems
Chemicals - hexafluorosilicic acid and sodium fluorosilicate
Derived from the phosphate mining industry,
both considered highly toxic by the EPA
These hazardous wastes are dumped into drinking water
LIES ... Fluoride - it's so good for your teeth
lies the dentist, lies the doctor, lies the politician
Lies the dead fish
in the water
Aug 21, 2012
Aug 21, 2012 at 8:08 PM UTC
battling demons
or suffering PTSD
with ADHD
and OCD
on TCH
looking for LSD –
need a little TLC
from the FDA
the EPA
just went MIA
and the UN
blames the FBI
while the CIA
and the NSA
seek the PLO –
brb
LOL, IDK
the shizzle is cray cray
****** be trippin
er’ry day
like Ross say
“don’t **** wit me” –
the USA
in betrothed to the NRA
and OSHA
just gave me a passing score
at the same time as the AMA
failed my blood
stylistically, this is MLA
and functionally it’s more WWE
TNT
CNN
t’n’a --
Jul 17, 2014
Jul 17, 2014 at 6:00 PM UTC
complexity
is your beauty
simplicity
your mystery
interdependence
sustains you
once upon a time
we dipped bowls
into your waters
and brought up
draughts of life
now
Skipjacks go
fathoms deep
into endless
depletion
charting
entangled
dead zones
broadening
into a sea of
inertness
your delicate
eco-essence tips
toward oblivion
effluvia farmers
layer mechanized
blankets of
nitrates on your
sunset shores
weaving
green tendrils
of algae blooms
strangling the
entanglements
of all links in
your miraculous
food chain
the EPA
proscribes
a Jenny Craig
pollution diet
to halt the
slaughter in
oxygen
challenged
dead zones
where rockfish
are garroted,
oysters get drilled
by screwworms
and azure tinted
soft shell *****
dance soft
shoe taps
lifting a tinny
chorus of sad
Piedmont Blues
the flat-lining
watersheds
voiceless
warnings
tremble
rocking the
purged nests of
screaming ospreys
in vocal protest
of a sinking
Tangier Isle
anointing it’s
tombstones
of unvisited
cemeteries with
multicolored
guano
fitting
alkaline
tributes
to the lost
inhabitants
and forgotten
languages
sinking into the
brine of gray
brackish tides
Delmarva’s fine
intra-continental
balance skewed
by the oozing
industrial swill
of Frank Perdue
chicken farms
ruling the roost of
sanctioned sustainability
tinging clear watersheds
of finger lakes
set in splints to
repair dislocations
and complex
compound fractures
that may never heal
again
Music Selection:
Taj Mahal: Fishin Blues
jbm
Oakland
6/7/12
Feb 19, 2013
Feb 19, 2013 at 8:36 AM UTC
By: Cedric McClester
The first black president
Must have made one hell of an impression
On the man who followed him
Directly in succession
He seems to want to unravel
Whatever is at his discretion
In order to rob the legacy
Of the man whose name means blessing
He did his best to chase
Obamacare away
Without an adequate replacement
To make its absence okay
Now it’s gas emissions
Being lowered by the EPA
I guess fossil fuel behemoths
Are sadly here to stay
And on the international scene
The man has been a wreck
He left the Paris Climate Accord
And gives our allies no respect
Then ***** up to Vlad Putin
A man of greater intellect
And pulled out of the Iran Nuclear deal
To spite Obama I suspect
And when he can denigrate him
He never misses a chance
Much like a woman scorned
Caught in a bad romance
People are getting tired
Of this dismal dance
They can predict his moves
Four moves in advance
Cedric McClester, Copyright © 2018. All rights reserved.
Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 3:08 PM UTC
[Shake Your ***** by KC and the Sunshine Band]
Oklahomans, get out doors, last chance
Scott Pruitt's leaving, no backward glance
Shake shake shake, shake shake shake
Frac your ***** frac your *****
Oh, shake shake shake, shake shake shake
Frac your ***** frac your *****
Oh, you have frac-ed for oil quite ah spell
You have messed up your world. What the hell
Oh, now you shake, shake shake shake
Fractured ***** fractured *****
Oh, shake shake shake, shake shake shake
Water's sooty, smells pah-tooty, oh yeah
Oh, shake shake, shake shake
Oh, shake shake, shake shake
Oh, Daily shake, Big mistake
Frac your ***** frac your *****
Oh, across your state, Big earthquakes
Frac your ***** All's Kaput-ee!
Mar 6, 2018
Mar 6, 2018 at 9:07 PM UTC
O, river
that has washed so many sins away, where catfish without two heads are freaks, while bible printing paper mills host their conventions in vegas;
flow free and clear again with one-headed rainbow trout.
O, brown sky
that falls beneath the weight of strip-mined mountains of coal black as industrialists hearts and rains enough acid for a very long strange trip to a grateful dead show on the jersey shore; give us again your sweet air and pink mares tails sailing by.
O, epa
where art thou while koch siblings pay lobbyists to paint your science a fuzzy shade of mucous green spat on the sidewalks of k street helping elect politicians whose sole job is to get reelected. Use the power of thy pen.
O, sea level
rise again to wash away our sins and start anew. Show to us good science.
r ~ 5/3/14
May 3, 2014
May 3, 2014 at 9:16 AM UTC
My train of thought must have jumped
the tracks in Hackensack
Now it's a terrible town in which to live
Another chemical company just paid five thousand
dollars [american] to contribute to the further
polluting of this fair city/DEATH TRAP
Five months ago the EPA already declared
the entire New York City area and radius of
fifty miles from Columbus Circle deadly
They basically said that breathing the air
will **** you! So I went out and bought
a mask and argued for two hours with
the police department on why I should
be allowed to wear an air filter but
No they said the merchants would think
I was robbing them and it would
scare shoppers and I said sh*t
People should have a right to
breathe clean air
But they don't
Here
in Hackensack
wrote a song about it
Living here in Hackensack
the Air is killing me
Jesus won't you help me breathe
I had no more of hope left
till [I read] Serenity [prayer]
Jesus won't you help me breathe
It said I shouldn't fret
about the things I cannot change
and to ask for your help-guidance
if there's things that I can change
Don't have the money to move as
far away as I need to be
Jesus won't you help me breathe
If I could move as far as good ol' Why Oh Me
I wouldn't have to pray on broken knees
I'm choking on the air I breathe
Lord Jesus can you please help me
Jesus won't you help me breathe
Socrates took his own life at the age of se'enty
Drinking Hemlock not green tea
Jesus look at me
and I'm not even Fifty-three
Jesus won't you help me breathe
Aug 29, 2015
Aug 29, 2015 at 1:07 PM UTC
Our prez is now Donald J Trump
Who has promised to clean out the sump
Well he's certainly no wussy
When groping a *****
What more to expect from a gump?
In charge of the Vice, Michael Pence
Said some things that embrace little sense,
"Global warming's a myth"
But's now taking the fifth
In attempting to straddle the fence
We all recall general Flynn
Put in charge of security spin
A trained atomiser
No more Trump's advisor -
His deal with the devil's his sin
The billionaire Betsy Devos
Making plans for a school albatross
Hating free education
Backs private castration
And kids will be bearing her Cross.
The Congress approved Jeff B. Sessions
Ignoring his racist obsessions
He seemingly cares
More for foreign affairs
While forgiving Klan's toxic transgressions.
Chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon
Develops the Great Again Canon:
The Goldman Sachs Bankster
Turned yellow rag gangster
Flings crap from the New Order cannon
Says EPA ruler Scott Pruitt
"Instead of dry facts, we intuit..."
(His work as denier
Keeps profits much higher)
"... If everything dies, well, just ***** it"
The war whoops of Mad Doggy Mattis
Awaken the death apparatus
With boundless expense
For a doomsday defence -
Armageddon administered gratis
The magnates no longer need lobby
Or fight regulations thought snobby -
Now set in the saddle
They're herding the cattle
And pulling the strings as a hobby
Now the Don can start wielding the axes
Truncating the tariffs and taxes
The Mafia boss
Is dismissing the dross
And poverty's pain as it waxes
Feb 18, 2017
Feb 18, 2017 at 7:11 AM UTC
Trump's targeted the EPA,
an agency that's in the way
of rich polluters everywhere
who foul the water, land and air.
Employees there may no more tweet.
With journalists, they may not meet.
No external communication.
No Facebook use across the nation.
For issues such as climate change
don't fit the script that Trump's arranged.
Oil wells and pipelines he has planned,
to snake across the hinterland.
He wants to dig and burn the coal.
He doesn't care. He has no soul.
He showers his troupe of alt-right *******
with platitudes and promised riches.
Oh what a sad and tragic day
when Trump destroyed the EPA.
Feb 20, 2017
Feb 20, 2017 at 8:45 PM UTC
Breaking a mirror won't bring financial ruin,
Unless you keep breaking them.
Carrying a rabbit's foot is just weird.
Ask the rabbit.
If you walk under a ladder,
You're ringing the wrong rung.
Enrol in a Health and Safety seminar.
If a black cat crosses the path of your vehicle,
Swerve,
You might clip it.
Pulling wishbones.... see Rabbit's Foot.
Bad news comes in threes,
And fours, fives...
You can bang on my wood anytime.
Lucky pennies don't exist in Canada.
Spilling salt is safe, and cheap.
If the price increased 1000%,
We'd still buy and spill.
Wishing on stars, candles and such
Is like holding air in your hands.
If you find a four-leaf clover,
Use EPA approved **** killer.
Don't step on a crack,
Don't sell crack,
Don't smoke crack.
Good Luck!
Mar 7, 2017
Mar 7, 2017 at 11:20 AM UTC
Everyone rejoice!
Run out and get Gay Married today!
While you are out, sign up for universal health care
if the website is up and functioning…
and you can navigate the page –
America is in an uproar
over new laws effecting the status quo
and yet
no one is discussing
a Republican house and senate
granting one of the most hated
democratic presidents ever
fast-track power
for the Pan-Pacific trade agreement
or the fact
that the Supreme court
just voted down
an EPA recommendation
to lower and eliminate Mercury emissions from industry –
But, Hay!
Don’t let that damper the parades
or stop people for one moment
from shaking a clinched fist
or frantically waving hands
at the leaders
of, by far,
the most insane nation on this
little blue rock –
Jun 29, 2015
Jun 29, 2015 at 11:34 AM UTC
I’m thinking
Thinking so much
I’m thunk.
Resident Trump?
Justice Kavanaugh?
Ending common law?
EPA to EDA
To protect or destruct?
To serve or to swerve?
Department of interior
Declaring mining superior
Thinks he, Zinke
What is the cost
Of Betsy DeVos
School house lost
Eight years denied
Nyet: destroyed
Great again?
I wish I were drinking
Instead of thinking;
Show me America sober again
Sep 29, 2018
Sep 29, 2018 at 3:26 PM UTC
Deregulation.
Deregulation.
That's what Trump says
Is going to save the nation.
To hell with the environment
And social media activist memes.
Let the coal industry dump
Coal debris in rivers and streams.
Forget greenhouse gas emissions.
There are rules to rearrange,
Repeal, expunge, delete, rescind…
Who cares about climate change?
Good-bye to banking restrictions.
Give tighter controls the ax.
Down with all consumer protections!
Three cheers for Goldman Sachs!
Who needs the EPA?
Why do all the activists seethe
When factories pollute the air?
The air is JUST something we breathe.
Caveat emptor--
That's the rule that's going to last.
Caveat venditor
Will become a thing of the past.
Benefiting the 1%
Has to be a worthwhile goal.
How else will those at the top
Keep the people under control?
Through rollbacks in regulations
Runs one common thread:
Relief for the corporations;
The rest of us can all drop dead.
Deregulation.
Deregulation.
That, according to Donald Trump,
Is going to save the nation.
- by Bob B (4-17-17)
Apr 17, 2017
Apr 17, 2017 at 10:02 AM UTC
Coming soon to a planet near you
Air we can't breathe
Plants we can't chew
If the EPA has it it's way
The skies will blacken
The rivers will burn
Automobiles will be our ruin
Heat our houses,
Cool our stores
America will still use More and More
Rachel Carson saw this coming our way
Citizens cried enough is enough
It's time we made polluters
Eat their own stuff
Then along came an administrator
Determined to ****
Not only the laws
But the people as well.
Rachel made sure that DDT went away
and by that research
We still have eagles today.
Eagle the symbol of America still
But with more pollution
We are determined to ****
**** the law and thereby **** the people.
What did God say
"The earth is mine, sayeth the Lord."
Apr 10, 2018
Apr 10, 2018 at 9:30 AM UTC
He crows about his crowd size
For “winning” an election
While most of us experience
Democracy’s defection
donald knows no boundaries
His pants always on fire
Now numbers past 12 thousand
Show he’s a constant liar
Praising evil dictators
He thinks that we won’t notice
While kow-towing to putin
Our crazy shady potus
Earth’s life-supporting systems
Are collapsing day by day
Showing scorched Earth strategies
Daily through his EPA
Rolling regulations back
For Mother Earth’s protections
Defiling our National Parks
Drilling toxic injections
The Amazon is burning
Is any country helping?
The Earth is getting hotter
Too many glaciers melting
trump’s polluting our sandbox
Distracting us from the greed
In the frenzy of rollbacks…
his relentless Twitter feed
Maligning our Free Press
It’s clear for whom he’s rootin’
Eliminating sanctions
Against vladimir putin
Sep 6, 2019
Sep 6, 2019 at 4:26 PM UTC