Monday, September 11, 2017

factory smoke





from your footstool, a comfortable cradle

you placed me i hesitate not to meddle

with my ever fattening factory smoke

thicker clouds, i cherish to make



trapping me tight behind those bars

from which neither me nor my princely progeny

will ever escape like a turtle trapped

under her own unyielding roof



thus with my shortsightedness i build

greater momentum to cause first, an hasty

homicide, moving then, to a silent suicide

pushing, further, to a genocide and a globocide



while the sulfuric stink from my artificial cloud

that deteriorating dead carcass shall pierce

through the ozone layer keeping pure the cloud

you send to refurbish my life at your footstool



© henry victor     15.10.2003







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