Every Scrap

Corb Lund, the prophet, speaks about the Bakken

the s**t explodes when it goes dry, that fountain

the blank space once again, only an oblong prairie

all polluted with petrol waste, just f*****g scary

maybe the demented visions of poets and troubadours

and yet when it comes apart, deaths come by the scores

the basic survival skills don't exist within the lines

called the urban, called the city, these are new times

for all of us since we were in comfort and contended

and now our yearnings for comfort are demented

fighting for every scrap you can in the contraction

and the sad truth, the only operation left is subtraction

and in the decades to come there in all the Bakken

the coming fallout will be the subject of all the talking

Author's Note

Reviews

[realmwriter]

We do now and will continue ad nauseam to fight for every little scrap of what we can get. We care little for what we can give and how we can help, only for that which we can take and who's back we can use as a stepping stone. I may have missed it entirely, but I don't think I have.

[charlie]

Can't help reading "The Kraken", instead of Bakken.
Engrossing write, Kenneth

[Kenneth The Poet]

Not a problem, charlie. The Bakken refers to the area of the ND oil boom.

[Pryde Foltz]

the blank space once again, only an oblong prairie
all polluted with petrol waste, just f*****g scary

Most excellent write. Here is to a greener future for all.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thank you, Pryde.

[roarke]

exactly, and by that time, all the words will fail.
This bathes in the vapors of the ethers, don't forget to wear a parachute. Nice stuff.

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thanks, roarke!

[Robbie~xoxo~]

I can't help but to envision Pompeii in this atrocity you depict...

Where everything explodes and left to ashes... an epic way of subtracting...

"fighting for every scrap you can in the contraction

and the sad truth, the only operation left is subtraction"~ would that be "the coming fallout"?...
I hope not...

Thought-provoking write, Ken!~xoxo~

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thanks, Robbie.