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Angry Earth

Flash
4 min readApr 22, 2021

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art credit — Mark Henson — March Of Progress — 1992

fires and floods, intense dangers of destruction
heated backlash, still brewing with industrial combustion
polar ice fading unshaded, warnings left unheeded
incremental denial, set the exploitation dial — greed fortified
power breaking backs with dreams of stacks
mountains explode, crumbled for coal
decimation cascaded — shattering horizons
shale fracking, sediment cracking
— releasing irradiated methane, buffer drains
triggering earthquakes that linger — echoing imbalances bigger
flammable water, contamination resides — dark demise as cancer rates rise
pumping a crude deluge of old dinosaur stew
— mainlining a venom infused
excavation sites, pipeline blights — roads bulldozed, refineries offload
idealized and commodified — block the gas stations shock
— connect the dots
the landscapes pocked with spills and rot — black death oozes
drill, baby, drill — kill, baby, kill — lobbyists — shill, baby, shill
— cha-ching

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Flash
Flash

Written by Flash

Flash The Funk Finder — poet, art activist, community organizer, event promoter, networking conduit, bike rider — enjoying the good waves & creative vibes

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