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SUCH A BEAUTIFUL PLANET OURS IS:

Rhyming (mostly) Reflections on the State of Our Planet 
BOB (ROPE) BREULS 

July 14 2019 

Photo: The Marsh in Summer at Dead Bear Farm. Cecelia Lee

Much of this is not new 
As recorded by Canada's own The Guess Who 
As the Maple Leaf is unfurled 
Sing Don't Give me no Hand-me-down Word. 

The sentiment needs much more emphasis 
Continue the metamorphosis 
To dodge the imminent crisis 
For such a beautiful planet ours IS. 

Carbon, mercury, lead & cadmium 
All out of place, Vomitorium 
Neonic pesticide Nuclear waste 
Microplastics 
Consume, make haste 
The frictionless commerce we know translates 
Plastic on shelves to marine vertebrates 
Demonstration only of friction displaced. 

Now frequent are statements of “going green” 
While keeping that high carbon regime 
Will Earths record as archaeology scene 
Well before the Anthropocene 
Continue? …………you know what I mean. 

After corporate confiscations, 
What remains for final nations, 
Who arrives for excavations. 
No current lobby group have they 
Campaign funding zero, no money, 
no way Sapiens they will NOT BE! 
Almost a certainty 
If that's not irony 
Try perversity 
So how rate they today’s priority 
Among policymakers and society 

Clever primates trainable eminently 
Ask what legitimate agency 
To achieve what exactly ultimately? 
Witness drive-through service choreography. 

Let's lose this mediocrity 
Cease expediency for this archaeology. 
While such a beautiful planet this is. 

Keep critique on main paradigm 
Many a time there is no rhyme 
For the future we wish to share. 
Advance the fight, eclipse despair 
Discern the strategy that brings confusion 
Denials distractions, silence, illusion 
Renounce the microcosmic focus 
Corporate media, hocus-pocus 
For all of that there's scant defence 
The big landscape of acquiescence 
Makes no sense, it's an excrescence. 

Black Friday is apt appellation 
Give darkness no exaltation 
Best option always illumination 
No priority to lobotomization
 Create another aspiration 
For sustainability, life affirmation 
For such a beautiful planet this is. 

To be a champion of Gaia 
Demands one be a pariah 
And be shamelessly iconoclastic 
Continue to renounce the plastic. 
Intensify the dot connection 
Ramp up the shit detection. 
Organization, activation, 
So worthy it is of preservation 
For such a beautiful planet this is.

 Bob Breuls is a jack of all trades par excelance and community activist who lives in Kingston Ontario.

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