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NANCY MERCADO

We The People

for BP & their oil spill catastrophe

Human beings are the Aryan race

Dragging Black men to their death

Along country roads

Behind pickup trucks

Discarding millions

In concentration camps

Using their skeletal remains

As household ornaments

Humans covet

Wish the downfall and ruin

Of their brothers and sisters

We incarcerate innocent animals

Showcase these regal creatures

For our own mad amusement

Humans amass wealth and material goods

And share them with no one

Not the refugees of Iraq

Not the starving people of the world

We are the Ted Bundys of the earth

Slashing and strangling

For simple pleasure

Reckless and uncontrollable

Keen and cunning

We pillage the planet

And throw our children’s

Future into the garbage

Humans know nothing

Of the universes

That surround us

Although we boast

And claim in loud voices

That we are unique

And highly evolved

And sophisticated

We don’t know

A damn thing