Palm Oil

Palm oil

when one writes about minorities 
no one wants to know, the next page about knitting, please.
We do not like to read about losers
and our responsibility for their failure.
A tsunami came rolled over the landscape, changed it
and the language, unstoppable misery for the people
who lived there, but it brought us the automobile. 
The Palestinians have lost most of their land and now
they are losing more, except their dignity.
We don´t want to know, the next page about knitting, please.
Let us read about the super-rich, their yachts
and Rolls Royce, we like to see the pictures of them 
in magazines, their villas and life mode
we dislike the truth, and it demands us to sit up straight 
and think about the world and the orangutan losing
their habitat to palm oil.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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July 9, 2020 at 7:20 AM
Jesus Christ to whom ALL turn from their wickedness, find peace.
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