threats

Security in Paris has been tight;
Gendarmes patrol the land, and sea, and air.
(Try Brussels if you must rebook that flight)
But coliform bacteria don't care.
Pasteur had cured disease in sheep, and men
Confronting anthrax on a chemist's terms
But someone upstream's shitting in the Seine;
The strongest athlete's not immune to germs.
The sewers Victor Hugo sketched so well
can't interdict what dribbles  in upstream.
Macron endures this very public Hell
as strangers soil his grand Olympic dream.
The spectacle was memorable, but...
we can't forget invaders of the gut.

pirate king

Macron holds Bolsonaro to his word;
the Amazon must photosynthesize.
To scorch the planet's lungs is just absurd;
without the rainforest, our species dies.
Such conflagration's more than law allows
whole tribes are perishing among their trees.
But ranchers, eager to export cheap cows
would liquidate a word's patrimony.
Pariah nation, shut out in the cold
no European's gonna buy its beef.
Their trade agreement's getting put on 'hold'
until Brazil repents and ousts this thief.
The human species' running out of time
for fascist who see profit in such crime.

whither Europe?

The European Union posed a threat
to Putin's dreams of new hegemony
he likes  them separated, and in debt
a fertile field to sow autocracy.
Macron proposes something more, instead
a fiscal union, feeding one shared till.
Kant's League-of-Nations dream just won't stay dead;
the reverie of Peace is hard to kill.
Two visionaries fight for Europe's soul.
American hegemony's long past.
Our troops pay rent, but aren't in control;
last year's alliances are fraying fast.
The Monetary Union's just phase one
of something wholly new beneath the sun.