"Medium: Oils"
It’s raining! It’s pouring!
Evacuate your homes!
Hurricane BP is a-coming!
Wh-where are the college students?
Oh No! College kids don’t watch the news;
they are adults but still children at heart!
My God, look at them in the park:
splashing in puddles barefoot,
catching raindrops with their tongues!
The air reeks of Mother Nature’s blood.
The winds whip up a slick sea spray,
the sky takes a sip, then a gulp;
levees in the clouds crack, their bellies burst open.
Oil spills down the students throats—
the petrol poisons their purified souls.
An old man in his car saw it;
said the children were vomiting rainbows.
It’s raining! It’s pouring!
My inner child curls up
in the comfort of my ribs,
shaking my heart like a rattle.
-Robert Gibson Jr.
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