Drilling For Oil

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. - Thoreau

black gold

texas tea

none for you

all for me

because you're naive and i'm shrewd

i'm refined and you're crude

here

there

everywhere

deeper and deeper

every fissure

every crack

never looking back

fracking

because i've got sufficient backing

with my greedy, earthen, subterranean straw

all that i've seen, all that i saw

down

down

up

up

with a plethora of faith and a little bit of luck

i'm taken aback

with viscous recoil

to the victor goes the gushing spoils

that's just how it is

drilling for oil

Author's Note

"Things do not change; we change." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Brett Moore]

I feel you. I'm in Dallas. If you head out of town in any direction, you can see the machines turning. Leisurely drawing the gold out. Leaving big empty holes underneath the ground we live on.

[Pete]

ouch, so sorry you have to see all that. we live in a sick world but what are we to do? we drive cars and need heat - it has to come from somewhere ... :)

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! You are going the big boys in the business. Be careful! They are powerful. Billions of dollars at stake. They can get rid of poets like us.
Big gun industry, big pharma, big oil, big arms......

[Pete]

.. and all i have is a big, empty gas tank and a big hole in my pocket ... :)

[Sami Khalil]

Hehehe
Good answer.