Oh how boring it would be
If we all embraced uniformity!
Cloning's not the way to go!
Let's keep our Variety Show.
*
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THE STAIN!
Address?
Somewhere on Earth.
Filmed from Space.
Not a vivid abstract painting
As you may have, at first, thought.
Not something attractive
To hang in the foyer
Of a smart hotel.
A dark blue eye
Seems to watch.
It is watching Toxic Waste!
This red stain
Is a stain on our consciences.
We ourselves
Have painted it.
We painted it
In a state of abstraction,
But it is not an Abstract.
We were half asleep
With the brushes in our hands
And the red paint dripped
And dripped
And dripped.
Till it transformed
The Earth.
Toxic Waste!
What Turpentine
Can erase our Big Mistake?
Lady Macbeth found out the hard way.
'All the perfumes of Arabia'
Were not enough.
*
Let's keep our Variety Show.
*
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THE STAIN!
Address?
Somewhere on Earth.
Filmed from Space.
Not a vivid abstract painting
As you may have, at first, thought.
Not something attractive
To hang in the foyer
Of a smart hotel.
A dark blue eye
Seems to watch.
It is watching Toxic Waste!
This red stain
Is a stain on our consciences.
We ourselves
Have painted it.
We painted it
In a state of abstraction,
But it is not an Abstract.
We were half asleep
With the brushes in our hands
And the red paint dripped
And dripped
And dripped.
Till it transformed
The Earth.
Toxic Waste!
What Turpentine
Can erase our Big Mistake?
Lady Macbeth found out the hard way.
'All the perfumes of Arabia'
Were not enough.
*
