Troubling methane has bubbled surreptitiously into my life,
Toxic clouds crowd the atmosphere it seems,
Oceans curl around unfurling magnetic poles,
Causing ripping planetary strife,
Glacial icebergs calve and swirl,
Whorl in icy commotion,
Escorted by dicey polar dreams,
Engulfed by molding lava and sculpting ice,
Streaming freely evolving deep inside,
Steeped within the mountain's nephritic bulk,
Scheming steam announces hulking arctic islands,
Reactive volcanoes jog my incinerated memory,
Incoherent particles and reminders,
Signs of an ashen faced Pompeii girl,
I'm hobbled thinking about that restive slash,
Once again wobbling along cobbled Herculaneum avenue,
Troubled streets paved with old hurts,
Incorporated and resolved by bold travelers,
New signs stating all that current media spin,
Conflict convicting news and other reckless views,
Tracking lies concerning DNA and petrol fracking,
Twisting green into industry under corporate farms,
There's the landscape but it's lacking any real hay stacks,
Stacking plastic concerns against other current runaway trains,
Unannounced the population bell rings,
Slurring things makes copulation stir me awake,
Slowly opening my postulating eyes,
So many urgent wooden wonders,
Wantonly tied to a tried and wanting stake,
Fake news burns bright,
Perfectly backlit with true vanity,
Insanity cradling every stray review and Awesome's dray resurgence,
Succinctly choosing layer upon layer with some sane urgency,
Reverently either black stone or white brick,
Most everyone adjunctly sees red lines and yellow skies,
Abjectly a hundred blue species,
Precious rainbows,
Contract extinction every single day,
Archimedes moves conjoined with waves,
Paving his exhilarated and dreaming way,
Across that universe of Eureka and Pi,
Endlessly spelling all that is right and true,
Artificiality compacts our daily lives,
Far off in the persistent distance,
Stands impacted Pliny the Elder,
Exactly mid-stride and not unattractively frozen,
Final absolute belief in 'gimme shelter',
Terrified Roman eyes were mystically pierced,
Razed by flaming insurrection and gross emotion,
Tridents holding rarified Hell's gate wide open,
Gladiators relish the terminal atmosphere,
Glaring past their armour at majestic Vesuvius,
God dangerously released that wrinkled top,
Pillars of terminal supercharged Hades,
Engaging that shrinking terminus and haunted horizon,
Violent new catalytic staging,
Apocalyptic as a raging volcano popped,
Old Pliny stood rectified,
Reciting fragments of Greek prayers and antiquated poems,
Inciting transient Gods from other Roman times,
Lopped grape vines and sage leaves,
Ceremoniously cropped and rolled,
Every living thing remolded,
Struck deaf dumb and blind,
Smoking the world asunder with that holy toke,
Placing gold reality upon a sacrificial altar,
Sacred in that scared volcanic way,
Mucking through hot ash,
Survivors stuck going home,
Struck along an acidic Appian Way,
Acrid death tucked-in like a nervous seed,
Along an endlessly overgrown ditch,
Hiding walls of moxie rules under cosmetic ash,
Asphyxiation along those unseen borders,
Accosted and held up,
Overcome by some ancient truth,
All that caustic smash Vesuvius ejected,
Horrified crank from that deep volcanic repudiation,
Street bangles and back alley beads were wordlessly extruded,
Glorious extrusions adjoin to such a planetary crashing,
Strings of dinky trinkets capture respite and solitary attention,
Regiments of brash neon lights,
Flashing midst all that crazy Tyrrenhian colour,
Dazzling electric blue and sea green,
Dreamy filaments distract us from God's divine invention,
Those intentional elements barking aloud,
Marketing adventurous plastic food,
Loyally consumed by a phrased Loyalist convention,
Crazed devouring in this artificially praised world,
We hear fools shouting out more school rules,
Incongruous tools that come advent should by all reason be absent,
Guns quiver in their master's shoulder-holsters,
Such keen and bolstered resentment,
Anxious cartridges secretly blessed,
Earmarked for blood and savoured,
Lobbyists with their many coats and flavours,
Sweet corruption swept under threadbare neolithic carpets,
Favoured troopers tattooed as deranged gun fools,
Terrorist attacks embody bitter rage and utmost disrespect,
Spin doctors and sin doctors raise their pathetic flags,
Trying advertising and other chronic public displays.
Openly flying right-wing patriotic rags,
Crying justice has been liberally redressed,
Regressive rubber tongues literally confess,
Digestive wagging and spinning truth,
Bragging biscuits and uncouth falsehood,
Public speculation while trying not to gag,
Righteousness has been trapped and captured,
Troubled wisdom has been beaten down,
Repressive thought and compressed ideas,
Redefined should's into undefined could's,
Misused rage entering the muse stage,
Abused oceans rise with rapturous applause,
Rousing a confused audience,
Upper and lower fractional zones compromised,
Overwhelmed by harsh yays and nays,
Barricades of outright lies and boxed up trash,
Brazenly this volatile planet is plundered,
Floundering with hounding political policies,
Impressive imaginary Emperors react,
Achieving all that they dream of,
Missions for all that greatness again,
Publicly stripped leaders are posing nude,
Meanwhile millions of precious birds have fallen,
Plummeting from our jeopardized sky,
Schools of stricken fish are calling,
Heated and washed up on rapacious river shores,
Exposing horrid islands of plastic flotsam and other ocean lore,
Seas of floating secrets,
Debunked but still recklessly dumped,
Once again turning our soylent green backs,
Closing our trickster coyote eyes,
Mum's the uncaring word,
A Trillionaire's plastic sum bloating the sorry sea,
God shakes his drafty universe and sighs,
Churning oceans are readily reviled,
Burning Eden has been defiled,
Pissed on like some pitiable bathroom floor,
Earth meets each pitiful new day,
Yesterday's relative pittance,
Greeted with an unbalanced nod,
Cryptic teetering with God,
Awash sadly in God's perfect light,
Breaching the randy surface of every rising ocean,
Reaching a critical brand and tipping point,
Days ago a metered phalanx of disjointed reliance,
Science bought and sold with no apparent conscience,
Busy humankind keeps barreling blindly along,
Full steam ahead singing some favourite war song,
Quarreling with contaminated logic,
Laminated with so many scientific taints,
Miscreants bludgeon every fainting cow,
Sacred science trolls without holy license,
Absently driven with few divine restraints,
General blaspheming as humankind merrily plays and sings,
Ring a ding ding,
Oh how we sing,
Ring a ding ding,
It began as a beer hall sting,
Ring a ding ding,
Ring a ding ding,
Why isn't our fragile world a happy thing?
Missiles and tankers and pipelines,
Marking yet another groaning war zone,
Sweet Ophelia moaning again,
Upended and freakishly tripping,
Condemned like some unbending heretic,
Defiantly stripping down to her pouting carrot stick frown,
Reprehensibly shouting she drowns herself again,
Redesigning rash Kings and classic frays,
Redefining playful volcanoes and smashed residents,
Inclined and dashing everything,
Everyone including brash politics,
Reprimanding intrusive Hamlet,
There he is weeping again,
Falling callously on the King's unsheathed sword again,
Craft reluctantly summoning sleeping warrior Mars,
Distraught under the infantile sun and urgent stars,
Encouraging feckless plumes of volatile methane,
This crass divergent world has truly gone insane.