NaPoWriMo #29: Front Page News: A New Energy Source

With the news of 5,000 barrels of uncontrollable crude oil leaking into the gulf of Mexico and infecting marine life for the capitalist bottom line, I thought it would be appropriate to discuss alternative energy sources to power our lifestyles. Here is a poem that discusses these ideas…

A New Energy Source

It’s not the carbon emitting fuels
Of dirty coal and greasy oil,
Nor the radioactive waves of grain
From nuclear waste gargoyles.

It’s not the clean emitting fuel
Of sun based solar cells,
Nor hydrogen and water vapor
As how a rainforest smells.

It’s not aunt Ethel’s ethanol farm
Where she grows sugar cane and beets.
Nor Mary Jane’s herbal garden
With her secret recipe treats.

It’s not the electromagnetic power
Or gyrating centrifugal force.
It’s not the carrot on a fishing line
That leads the hungry horse.

It’s not the static electricity
That’s found through disheveled hair,
It’s not the nylon Sheer Energy
That gay Republicans like to wear.

It’s not the energy in geothermal
Or undulating tidal waves.
It’s just our founding fathers
Spinning in their graves.