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Peak Oil
Once continental twisting
Had dissolved the dinosaurs
Tiny mammals shifted
To bipedal omnivores
Soon upright Homo Sapiens
With bulbous frontal lobes
Came pouring out of Eden
To the corners of the globe
Ferocious modern primates
Left their rivals dying dumb
To built a city-state or two
With slick opposing thumbs
The dirty flaming torches
Licked their soot in summer air
While streams of hydrocarbons
Ran beneath them everywhere
Bull nose pumps on grassy fields
Bobbed stiff in mother earth
Sucking up the sweet and light
For those who got there first
But lizards stuck in deeper clay
Cost far beyond their keep
And humus under Saudi sand
Turns sulphur week by week
Peak oil took two hundred years
Of greed and faith and hope
Now stand together hand in hand
Look down the rapid slope
The sun shone for humanity
Then vanished in a puff
For every species trampled down
Ten barrels bubbled up
[Sep 29, 2005]
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The
Poetry of Daniel Harrison