Traumatized by things not even
noticed by the real men of tough conservatism
Despaired
over the non-stop record high temperatures and ongoing dusty, windy
droughts
Lost
my shit watching BigCoal CEOs refuse to remove the mercury emissions
destroying baby’s brains
Felt
hopeless realizing that the sacred free market priced elephants &
tuna out of existence
Even
got choked up at hearing all the frogs
were disappearing, or getting born with extra legs
Got
PTSD absorbing coverage of Islamists slaughtering pre-teen
schoolgirls with automatic weapons
Gentle
cows in filthy, overcrowded feedlots and bloody, inhumane
slaughterhouses broke my heart
I
felt really sick as Alaska burned while all the arctic permafrost
melted and belched out methane
It
smacked me in the gut to learn that the entire Great Barrier Reef
simply bleached out and died
Devastated
learning citizens still find jobs
more important than the natural systems we all depend on
Depressed
by the govt’s subsidizing sugar and corn for fast food and
paying for the diabetes epidemic
Stunned
into silence at how easily we wasted global 9-11 goodwill by invading
Iraq on false
pretenses
Shamed
that we wont sign treaties on kids, women, land mines, cluster bombs
and chemical weapons
Nauseated
seeing bloated shark corpses, with their fins sawed off, just left to
rot in the open seas
Realized
just how lost
we really are when we extinguished the tigers to make soup of
their penises
Broke
my heart to see salmon, key to ecological & mythical systems,
dammed up and dried out
Brought
to tears seeing starving polar bears drown swimming to find their
melted ice hunting grounds
That
joke about how free markets would compete to provide
healthcare for the poor just tore me up
Got
sick to my stomach seeing martyrs gunning down different sects
of the same religion, at funerals
Disheartened
by eternal defense
spending increases even as our infrastructure rotted all around
us
Dumbfounded
that a being as unnatural as a radical anti-environmentalist could
ever even exist
Broke
my heart to see how very, very little we care that we are the
cause of a global mass extinction
Shocked
at our mass slaughter of brainy dolphins and mythic albatross as mere
factoryfishing bycatch
Revolted
by the human-created dead
zone as large as Massachusetts at the mouth of the Mississippi
Haunted
by the vast micro-plastic litter spinning in our ocean gyres,
mistakenly eaten by microfauna
Felt
alienated by their loving choice to waddle obesely about in
overpriced, super-sized P/Us & SUVs
Choked
on the huge portions of dishonest soundbites I was fed by all sides,
from every form of media
Stung
by the rejection of sustainability
as mere foolishly-useless, liberal, unpatriotic, sinful
nannying
Completely
deflated by our attraction to royal political families and bombastic
media demagogues
Hurt
by the abandonment
of rationality in favor of shouted soundbites & a
loudly-proud ignorance
Felt
betrayed by the wanton alienation of our allies in a rush to make
ourselves great again, all alone
Sickened
at the notion that this vast destruction we label progress must
continue indefinitely, amen
Broke
my heart to see them struggle on $1 a day as we idled for fast food,
in air-conditioned comfort
Came
unglued hearing that every year is always the hottest ever and
that our people really dont care
Dumbfounded
by our legislators utter failure to address any issue that
might cost votes on either side
Disgusted
by that bloated corporate healthcare industry draining 20% of
GDP, yet still failing
millions
Broke
my heart seeing how senseless, worn-out religions still drive
believers to righteous slaughters
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