Oh yes, dear Blueship, how fine

your warm new sweater, with

all its swirly patterns, divine!

 

Oh yes, dear Blueship, how mine!

this close pattern of behavior

with all it's consequence so blind!

 

Oh yes, dear Lifeboat, do rhyme

your defense with something grand

as dollars, donuts, sausage and crime!

 

Let the climate change, and let the change

be. Keep the change in fact! and let

the criminals party to define insane!

 

Oh yes, dear old Earth, so fine

we hope that you don't mind

our bright cars and wonderful wine!

 

Cheers to climate change, sometime

in the future, meanwhile, pass

the ammunition, and polish the shine!

 

Oh yes, dear Blueship--your crew-

what a lusty lot, and life so cheap!

play on! we're all in the same stew.

 

Here's for the miniaturist, the portrait

of a planet, pointilistic, every little bit-

a you and me, playing with fate!

David Moodie,

a warm December evening sometime in the late hours of the raging oil party

Svendborg, Denmark