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Those of you that have been reading my blog are aware that I have been deeply affected by the Gulf oil disaster.
I have been playing with ukulele designs and came up with this fantasy. If only oil rigs could be washed away and magically replaced by wind turbines and solar collectors!
Black Death
I was born in Florida and am very intimate with the sensitive flora and fauna of an estuary.
It is with great grief in my heart that I have watched the BP oil disaster unfold.
Crude oil
70,000 barrels or
nearly 3 million gallons per day.
A slow-motion tragedy
thick as Louisiana bean soup.
We all go on with our daily lives
I head to Starbucks.
Tall caramel macchiato, skinny,
No whipped cream, extra caramel.
And as I drink my coffee,
Turtles head for beaches to lay eggs.
Birds head for marshes to nest.
Fish head for estuaries to spawn.
The Gulf’s flora and fauna,
innocent and unsuspecting victims of circumstance,
go about their customary days and nights while headed
towards aquatic Armageddon.
In the 5 minutes it takes to finish my cup of coffee,
another 10,000 gallons of crude has erupted from the ocean floor.
Scientists speculate on the cumulative impact of oil.
What is the cumulative impact of heartbreak?
