Monday, April 21, 2014
Amnesia or Willful Forgetfulness?
Four years ago this past Sunday, BP’s
Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico blew out, destroying the
Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, killing 11 workers and setting
off an uncontrolled oil gusher lasting 87 days.
By the time the flow was stopped, an
estimated 200 million gallons of oil had entered the ocean.
Folks, have we forgotten so soon?
Are we supposed to sit back and watch
it occur all over again?
Like a “B” Saturday afternoon
horror movie?
It destroyed our beautiful gulf coast,
turning it into a virtual black, sticky blob.
Don't we remember the devastation?
The beautiful water fowl with wings
laden with black “tar”?
Or the once sparkling blue sea water
turned into a giant mass of oil?
It's all gone now.
We weren't trustworthy custodians.
We deserved what we got.
Is America poised to do exactly
the same thing?
The name may have changed. Good-bye
Deepwater Horizon...hello XL
It's the same scoundrels ready to do in
the heartland what it did in New Orleans.
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