Prodigiously wasted precious, non-renewable energy without
the slightest consideration
Cloned endless farmland, coastline and forest into identical
suburbs and cheap strip malls
Sent engineering jobs to Japan, production to China and
customer support to India
Passed laws to protect the environment but cut backroom
deals so as not to fund them
Unquestioningly threw away more money on defense than all
other developed countries combined
Sent mom and dad off to the mercy of low-wage, franchised,
contract, foreign attendants
Never saved a nickel but demanded free health insurance and
a fat retirement pension
Expected safe food even as I flooded my own lawn with
pesticides and fertilizers
Smirkingly spun and marginalized as wackos those who dared
to question our agenda
Stepped safely away from the mortgage on that thrice
Re-Fied, shoddily-built McMansion
Shook my head in disbelief at the environmental mess the
Chinese made producing our cheap goods
Gave my kids every opportunity to become obese and diabetic
- Even younger than I did
Sustained multi-generational poverty by simply managing to
always look the other way
Unconsciously belched out tons of climate-warming CO2 on
countless, very pointless little trips
Turned sleepy backwaters into artificially-overpriced,
family adventure resort communities
Left my inflated healthcare bills in the laps of my spoiled
and ignorant children
Burnt up all the easy-to-grab fossil fuels and left the
roads and bridges in ruins
Stayed utterly silent and permitted human population to
increase to the crashing point
Institutionalized snowmobiles, jetskis, ATVs and 50’ RVs as
valid forms of wreckreation
Deftly ignored the holocaust from which our meat emerged, so
safe and very shrink-wrapped
Stored billions of tons of recyclables under toxic landfill
goo - to be mined by those yet to come
Wasted irreplaceable fossil aquifer water growing
indigestible grain to tenderize our meat
Disinterestedly stood by as big energy devastated anywhere
it pleased, in the name of cheap energy
Convinced our clueless kids that they were special and that
they would surely rule the world
Brought god into the government but vowed to keep its nose
out of our commerce
Replaced climax old-growth forests with a
corporately-managed, monoculture investments
Re-introduced the wolf but extinguished the songbirds,
reptiles, fish and amphibians
Flushed a giant dead zone down the chanellized Mississippi
into our once-fruitful Gulf
Sacrificed my ideals to media hypnosis after each long day
of pointless toil, under nitwits
Schemed to preserve the beings we wiped out in the wild in
sterile zoos and laboratories
Replaced home cooking with fast-food, take out and frozen
microwave dinners
Drove up the price of each toney new seafood item until it
was harvested into extinction
Used credit cards as an income source and then squalled
loudly for relief from the unfairness
Alienated the entire world and caused the teeming global poor
to attack us everywhere
Always stopped to smell the roses and lived for today and
wished our kids good luck
Rode
on, convinced that my insular, fundamentalist, creationist faith would protect
me, forevermore
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