Victorian-era diseases,
Two hundred fifty thousand
Hungry children,
Forty per cent families
Food insecure,
Bloated Commonwealth Banks!
Vulnerable
Endangered
Critically endanger’d,
Marvellous masterpieces
Mother’s unnegotiables,
Sharks, rays!
Ocean fish keepers:
Long lifers
Slow low reproducers
Population regulators
Fitness instructors
Disease strong-armers,
Untouchable medicos!
Broiling Arctic
Avarice bankers,
O’ Great Ones,
Climate firestorms
Marine bottom heatwaves
Sea ice, krill, crustaceans
Going, going, gone!
Barbaric bastards,
Bully brutes,
Finest Fins,
Bluest Blues,
Hvalur hf hoodlums
Hideously harpooning!
‘O mighty mushrooms,
Wind-makers!
Forest colonisers,
Temperature regulators,
Marvellous Ones!
Airborne spore tons
Cloud seeders,
Righteous rain-makers
Water table lifters,
Rainforest rejoicers!
Edinburgh Mountain’s
Royal Majesties,
Colossals unprotect’d,
Teal Jones, Pacheedaht,
Extinction-makers!
Hideous heat domes,
Desiccating droughts,
Gasping globe,
Forever firestorms,
Cremated creatures,
Still secrecy!
Climate Chaos,
Hotter, longer, unlivable,
Four synchronised heat domes:
Northwestern China
{52.2C Xinjiang},
North Africa
{50C Northern Algeria},
North Atlantic Ocean
{5C marine heatwave},
Southwestern U.S.
{36C Phoenix nighttime low},
Fossil-fuelled HEAT!
What’s life’s point?
Not about job,
Not about career,
Not physical life,
Aspects of life,
Not life’s point.
True ice whales,
Colossal crowns,
Perfect strainers,
Seventeen grand metres
Sixty-four big tonnes,
Your Highnesses!
Hallelujah fish!
Glorious gratitude,
Fecund feeders,
Diligent digesters,
Alkaline-stomach’d,
Diamond defecators
Calcite crystals,
Cracking carbonates!
Age of Agony
Caterwauling chainsaws
Burly brutes
Roughneck RCMPs*,
Evict’d eagles!
Salmon Nation Rainforest,
Unrepeatable uniqueness
Colossal cedars
Divine Douglases
Humongous hemlocks
Wondrous water,
Spawning salmon!
Your half-ton
Highnesses’ hearts,
Fiendish fisheries,
Simmering seas,
Horrendous Homo sapiens,
A thousand pardons!
Seventy-one years
Stewing northern Alberta,
Oily subsidised trillions,
Sticky sickness
Athabasca to Mackenzie Rivers
Cramm’d carcinogens,
Nauseated North Pole!
Mother Earth be damn’d:
Australian Prime Minister
Anthony Albanese, neoliberal,
Fossil fuel subsidiser
Coal mine, LNG* green-lighter,
Wolseley Road, Point Piper
Manservant!
Restoring Nature,
Impossible!
One constant process
Universal change,
The External Becoming,
Nothing is reversible!
More fracking
Seismics, drilling
Piping, poisoning
Gulf of Mexico,
Marine life
Climate, NAH!
Genial Giants,
Magnificent meadows
Grazing Gentles,
Floridian figureheads
Castaway casualties,
Dreadfully doomed!