Oil Spills and the Environment

A good friend of mine, William Dunkerley, wrote this poem about oil spills with a nod to Edgar Allen Poe. I hope you like
it. It is titled Once Upon A Well Of Oil.

Once upon a well of oil, 
now we watch the ocean spoil
over many a day as ominous
volumes flood the ocean floor.
What are risks when money's snapping?
Screw the birds no longer flapping;
oversight shared bed, 'twas napping,
napping careless of the shore.
"Drill Now Baby Drill," they chanted,
clapping cause, "Who needs the shore?"
Quoth the Raven, "I'm not a Raven –
I'm a damned dirty duck. Wipe, please."

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