Nature or Nature

     

Oil Spill

Finally: a sufficient image and

ongoing reminder of  ah,  the

humanity!  My Humanities

Division.

War in Vietnam—the first dinner-

time televised West vs East higher-

arching  hegemonic homeland  

securing exercise, the Gulf war,

Iraq and  Afghanistan with boots

& rifle symbolism,  flag draped

coffins, sky rockets  delight as

spectacular as that is —even the

moon landing with its giant step

for man kind --don’t begin to seize

my imagination as  much as an

ongoing billowing oil spilling

plumes and  pelicans, fishing boats

bobbing against the dock &

accusations all around all around

& accusations all around.

There, there—all is well and all

is well and all manner of things

is well. “We have met the enemy,”

says Pogo.  Come: let us accuse

each other so that this kind of

thing will never happen again,

never again.