swamp creature

Scott Pruitt's asking donors to endow
a legal fund, accusing the Free Press
of overplaying what he's done, and how
he got the EPA into this mess.
The swamp just fulminates like some dire rash; 
to hide malfeasance, he makes more, and more.
Faux Public Servant, in it for the cash.
Armani suits bedeck a common whore.
In Oklahoma, no one gave a hoot;
one party holds all levers of the State.
Each bureaucrat sold license to pollute,
deriding Feds who'd dare to regulate.
Fond dreams of our Green future come to naught;
the regulator's office has been bought.

a system of tubes

Flint's citizens were empoisoned en masse
by water from each residential tap
each time they'd cook or drink or brush or floss
their bodies absorbed heavy-metal crap
intoxication with lead won't flush out
these doses linger to their dying day
there's blame enough for all to go about
for damage that can never go away
Rick Snyder's team can't dodge their share of guilt
for risks he took with other people's lives
all Michigan's committed to the hilt
to recompense the health he's compromised
the governor deserves to be shot dead
for pumping Flint's tax-payers full of lead       

institutional oppression

"lead poisoning"'s used euphemistically
to circumlocute deaths in a gang war
but Snyder saw a way to shave a fee
corrupting service to Flint's urban poor
lead plumbing irrigated Nero's digs
and under-laid New York's first cobbled streets
but now it's found unsafe for even pigs
for all intent and purpose, obsolete
that Black Lives Matter is self-evident
and so our constitution testifies
but when you trace how tax dollars get spent
that high-fallutin' language sounds like lies
'til Black and White are treated all the same
the Press must shine a light on Flint's rigged game        

death by coal

renewables are all the rage today
Coal barons find their assets are just holes
but fusion's always thirty years away
except for what we harvest here from Sol
if smog in Beijing eats the paint off cars
as bad a London's in king Edward's age
and children's lungs are hobbled there with scars
then China should be first this war to wage
instead she moves sources of CO2
into the ethnic far west countryside
for ev'ry solar farm, there's coal plants two
where more Uyghurs and fewer Han reside
all mankind shares a common atmosphere
extinction looms if we can't make it here