Complaint
Preface: There is entirely too much water being consumed. People should be satisfied with thirst and being dry. People should think about desert sand, romancing dunes and bleached bones in repose.
People become inflated with hydration
Leaving the faucet on, mouth wide open
Under the deluge of flowing water spouts
Every drop is counted against humanity
Wasted on the tongues of one another
Walking around like sacks of fat fluidity
Carbon units of wet are most insidious
Something is wrong when not forgotten
Hydration is the sin of water intake
Who forgot to turn it off? ?
The sum worth of oceans is in their taste
Is salt not dry? Is it the flavor of the day?
Parched deserts are void of water with no shame
Under the sun there is no shade to hide
Only heat and land flow open on tomorrow
Being porous is a crime
This condition is not a state of holiness
Leakage is a sin against humanity
People who drink will leak
Will sink in perpetuity to new depths
Oceans of debt will swallow them whole
They rise to levels with high tides to float
To their horizons saturated in their homes
Where will they go?
Fluid intake is a compromise to thirst
Weighs heavy on the bladder of the sinner
People who take leaks on lawns
Should be arrested and pay fines
Urination is not the nation I had in mind
It should be a crime
Such actions are not civilized
There is nothing wrong with being dry
From what I can surmise
Copyright © Earl Schumacker | Year Posted 2019
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