Congressional Bribery II

a herd on the Savannah
the sick and young and elderly
are falling behind
we are losing them
we love them
for their weakness
is salvation
for the rest of us
we scorn them
to thwart our guilt
but we can not
staunch our bleeding hearts

Congressional Bribery I

Their withered hands
groping for the fetid money
weeds and centipeeds crawling
through their decaying suits
shiny and handsome
encrusted with remains of fine meals
the laugh and lie
and sell the health of millions
to affluent predators
whom are fattened and happy
the mansions of these tigers
are littered with so much
ineffectual health care policy
one can not walk though
without staining one's soul

Zero Sum Biodiversity

Relentlessly pounding on their existence
to gain our little hectare of Hell
sew that recently departed sacred grove
of rain forest with Montsanto GMOs
see what you will have left
as the Earth wilts at our touch
zoos become our last bastion of encapsulated nature
Soon only rats, humans, and cows will remain
to fill out the class mammalia
so much easier to draw the phylum chart
we have dwindled down to a zero sum biodiversity state
with each overreaching grasping desire
I take for me an essential piece
of the much diminished creation
splendor lost for consumer gains
I wonder if God is ever disappointed with
how little of His lovely work remains