At this moment in time
\nIn America the Dakota access Pipe line
\nCrawls
\nThis great black snake we hear
\nWill take fracked crude oil
\nAnd appals
\nSo many as it soon will
\nRun under The Missouri where
\nIf anything untoward should happen
\nThe pollutant they will share<\/p>\n
With all the indigenous people
\nFor water is for life
\nAnd pollutants in that water
\nBrings everyone such strife
\nThe indigenous now are battling
\nWith pipe lines security
\nWho are taizing them and firing rubber bullets
\nNow daily<\/p>\n
And almost every country
\nHas suffered as this one
\nRivers wholly damaged
\nThis is what they have done
\nAnd on the Piranga and Carmo rivers
\nIn, South East Brazil
\nA mine and dam collapsed we hear
\nAnd the story that they spun<\/p>\n
Was it will soon be sorted
\nThe same old corporate crap
\nAnd into the DOCE river
\nRight in someones lap
\n20,000 swimming pools
\nOf mud was seen to fly
\nPacked with iron and aluminium
\nAnd arsenic and it did ply<\/p>\n
Down the river DOCE or sweet river
\nLike before
\nWhich had been packed with lots of river fish
\nWhich everyone knew for sure
\nSAMORCO mIning Company
\nAround FUNDAO DAM
\nKnew several people had been lost
\nWhen The iron ore mud did slam
\nReally almost everywhere
\nIn Such a deadly wave
\nUnleashing every kind of fear
\nThe base results were grave<\/p>\n
Livelihoods were ruined
\nThe fisherman did lose
\nEverythjng they were set to gain
\nNobody would choose
\nSuch an ugly memory
\nAnd drinking water too
\nWas wiped away in seconds
\nThats is what they do
\nThese mining corporations
\nFrackers
\nPipe lines too
\nLobbying like no ones business
\nWhen they want to do
\nAnything, their promises
\nLike confetti in the rain
\nAnd governments give into them
\nAnd really they are insane<\/p>\n
All sociopaths who live in mansions
\nMany miles away
\nThey dont worry if it all goes wrong
\nEverything is okay
\nFrom them, whereas local people
\nWho live off the land
\nThey are fucking ruined
\nNow can you understand?<\/p>\n
Why the trubes are converging
\nTo protect a water source
\nWith lying scheming bastards
\nWho get their way by force
\nWe have seen it at the standing rock
\nBeaten up and taized
\nRubber bullets
\nBeaten black and blue
\nNo never phased<\/p>\n
And the local police contingent
\nThey are at it too
\nBother boys who like a punch up
\nThat is what they do
\nBaton rounds
\nAnd bean bag rounds
\nAnd live rounds too, for they
\nAre up to beating local people
\nThats how they earn their pay<\/p>\n
And this mud slide has ruined
\nThe environment for good
\nAnd does the CEO care
\nOf course he bloody should
\nBut is he really suffering
\nSo does he really care
\nSure they get a poxy fine
\nSmall change for them
\nAware
\nOf course they are but its shareholders
\nAnd profits they care about
\nLocal peoples water
\nThe rules most of them flout<\/p>\n
Here in BRazil we feel for those
\nIndigenous who pay
\nWho cry because they have lost it all
\nIt happened in a day
\nThe day the mud came washing through
\nAnd despite the so called aid
\nThe deed is done under the sun
\nAnd futures surely fade<\/p>\n
Then the wild life suffers
\nRight out there to sea
\nThe hump back whales the leatherbacks
\nSo much agony
\nBut not for the mining corporation
\nFat cigars and more
\nAnd lots of fat shareholders
\nKnocking on their door<\/p>\n
fifty million tons of toxic sludge
\nImagine that
\nAnd if it reaches the beaches
\nThat will just be that
\nAnd before the mine or fracking pad
\nOr pipe line was installed
\nThe promises the extra work
\nWe all could not afford
\nTo turn down all their offers
\nTo set us up for life
\nWe would be fucking millionaires
\nStrife we would have no strife
\nAir there would be no problem
\nWater not at all
\nAnd then of course it happens
\nAnd we then know whose the fool
\nWe are for believing
\nWe should have stood our ground
\nWe should have dug deep and been there
\nAs protectors now we are drowned
\nIn toxic sludge
\nOr fracking crude
\nOr radioatcive shit
\nAnd where is the bloody CEO
\nThat man of truest grit<\/p>\n
No where to be seen ofcourse
\nAnd the government who said yes
\nThey are in the Bahamas somewhere
\nAnd we are in a mess<\/p>\n
This is a wake up poem to all of us
\nChiefly about the Brazilian problem
\nBut it relates to us all
\nOr will do soon when MRS May starts rhe fracking stuff
\nGoing and this bloody pipe line in North Dakota carries ln
\nAnd the ecuadorian oil exploration in the jungles
\nAnd all thenother places<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At this moment in time In America the Dakota access Pipe line Crawls This great black snake we hear Will take fracked crude oil And appals So many as it soon will Run under The Missouri where If anything untoward … Continue reading