Legacy Poem by shimon weinroth

Legacy



fumes erupting from the bowels of
hydra - electric, chimneys, spirling
heavrenward, mix with the billowy clouds,
that will hang in shame and then float,

their greasy film, encapsulating other
innocent particles, return and descend
to the earth, an acid rain over the globe,
hovers and smothers

infants and nursing mothers, generations
beget generations, some die as others adapt
impotent, sterile, wombs spout and spill out
defects and rejects, monsters of ecology,

some say god wanted it this way,
the laws of Darwin will cease to work,
A Chinese Malthus an Indian fakir
upset the balances

I shall continue to write on recycled paper
bombarded by electronics, eat food of hydroponics,
genetically improved, shake abd quake in fear
of HIV positive or worse, take baths more often,

and worry will my grandchildren survive

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