"The truth, always the truth--at all costs"
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| 9013 06/05/2010 PUMPING OIL (poem) SAM HAMOD |
| PUMPING OIL Every night, on TV they play The same tapes, plume after Plume of oil, gushing out of the sea bottom, Never ending, a volcano of oil, dark brown Against the light green sea, and The commentators so solemn, each night The left and the right, intoning their Wisdom of repetition, TV, TV, a repetition of words As repetitive as the videos we see, as Repetitive as the oil that does not stop Erupting, repeating the same stories, as If nothing else Is going on In the world, except this oil, nothing of the peace/medicine flotilla attacked by Israel, killing so many, nothing of Haiti now, or the starvation in the Sahal, These spewing plumes, like feathers now In the hats of Obama, BP, right wing, Left wing, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, ABC, CBS Every day, every night But nothing of those who died On the oil platform, or the woman Who radioed and shouted, “mayday, mayday,” And her boss who yelled for her to shut up, no Word about why it took Obama so long to Realize this was the biggest oil spill in history, No one has asked why he didn’t call on other nations Ask as he did to kill people in Afghanistan and Iraq, why He couldn’t ask them to help clean this mess up, a mess The birds, turtles, fish, shrimp, crayfish, didn’t cause, but as they die, slowly, oil scum... I guess Obama was to busy, going on vacation, thinking about His next speech, his next lie about peace in the Middle East, Wondering how to help Netanyahu lie some more about Why he had to kill people who came for peace with medicines For Gaza, perhaps Obama was too concerned about how to say He “regretted the loss of life,” while dodging the truth, just as he Did with the BP oil spill, saying after a month, “we’re in charge,” a Little like Alex Haig when he buffooned himself with those words, Obama did no better, buffooning himself in front of the cameras, While everyone was astounded that he’d been “in charge,” but Of course, when it was clear, all was lost, and the “cap” would not work, Obama said, “No, it was BP’s fault, and he sent Holder to Prosecute BP, to gather evidence…” so, he wasn’t in charge After all, just like the oil pumping, out of the sea, Day after day, minute after minute, night after night, Pumping, pumping, pumping, pumping And the final truth is, no one is in charge C: sam hamod, june 5, 2010 |
