Economies of Scale
by Roy Gray
Climb the supply chain
Fill the production lines
Flood the distribution channels
Sail the waste stream
Rot in the dump.
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Capital has
a high contact angle.
On any surface
the drops coalesce.
Receding from a desert.
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Permeate the aquifers
Taint the soil
Up the food chain
Down the hatch.
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Rise to the stratosphere
Coldwards with Hadley
Condense where the ice flows
Pollute the Poles.
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Drop in the ocean
Sink without fuss
Drift with the currents
Poisonous
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Kill flies
Then high rise
With the wind
Spread around
Thence to ground
Rain over mankind
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Cool the food
Then take flight
Up to the stratosphere
Frying tomorrow.
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Oxidised carbon
Makes the world roast
So oceans expand
Overland.
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Stormy oceans
Unstable icecaps
Destabilised ecosystems
Unstabled horses
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Eat more than you need
Do less than you can
Clog your arteries
Die young
man.
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Gifted this world
Wrapped in scatterblue skies
Outwardly bountiful
Dying inside
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bleached corals
beached whales
extinct species
big returns
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© 2004 Roy Gray
I am an occasional poet. My poem Towards
Darwin was
reprinted in the 1999 Rhysling Anthology and has recently been accepted
for a further 'reprint' in Astropoetica. I am an
oft-rejected writer of
short fiction who lives in Britain.
My publication record includes:
Fiction: Interzone 2001 & 2000
Reviews: Interzone, of genre theatre, (2000
&1998)
Articles: Irish Pharmachem Directory 2003,
Freelance Writing & Photography, Packaging India (1995)
Mindsparks, PharmaceuticalTechnology (Europe) & New Writings
(1994)
Humour: Physics World (1994, 5 & 7)
Drama: In 2003 I won a UK Public Awareness of
Science grant for a drama treatment that shows science or scientists in
a ‘good light’.
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