Long Exxon Poems

The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...

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I was going on a vacation with my family one day,
 We thought we would head down Louisiana way.

 It was great being with my wife and daughter, 
 Until I saw a black bird...

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It all started five decades ago, when her gift of imagination began to grow. 
She was the youngest of five and could not wait for her to arrive.
Velvety soft skin so fair, along with lots...

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Passing through for a short time
Just stopped in to tell you “Hey”, 
nothing specific on my mind.
Haven’t had much to say.

Been over a year since I wrote a single word,
or been able to finish a...

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He looked at his orders and left out a long sigh
Raised his eyes to the clouds and asked, "Why, God, Why?"
The toughest assignment of a long career
A message to be taken to a family held...

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Ah! For the good old days when you could fill the tank for a dollar.
If folks paid more'n a quarter a gallon, my, how they'd holler!
Nowadays, it necessitates a usurious loan from the bank,
Or a...

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The Cinematic Film Treatment as a stand alone element 
in the aesthetic revolution we are now not witnessing


Radiant 

A pilgrimage of enlightenment undertaken by Bob the Plumber after experiencing a spiritual detonation that woke him...

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To The Nexted Blog....

About Exxon...

Stressed Long...

Like Withering Latches...

Is'nt She Magic...

Instantly Passion...

Attaches...

To This...

Fluid...Movement...

Of Dellusive Music....

Changes Truth...

Like The Anchient Roots...

We're All The Same...

Players In This Common Game...

Where Everyone Tries To Stop The Pain...

Constant Rain...

Leave's Me Lost Again...

Like...

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   Gen X or the
MTV generation.
   See a big growth in the
 Dept. of education.

   A generation of latchkey 
Kids home alone.
   Rocky hits the box office,
With...

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Big oil has its hands in our pocket
Pump prices rose like a rocket
It was just a ruse
Designed to confuse  
The voters who vote with their wallet  

Inflation to voters does smell
And affects what...

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Strange signpost of circling destiny - an Exxon station,
perched at the crossroads of State Highway 95
and Farm to Market Road 1331.
Almost certainly without its own knowledge
serving as the gateway to Arcadia.

Where life may be older...

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It was a day like all the rest as off to work I went
Surely to face a new test for as such is life meant
But this time as I went I prayed in a different...

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Mug of Joe
Tarp hung low
Living under an over pass
Is better than dancing in jail
Day old butts
And dumpster meals
A cart with just three wheels
Got a place staked out
On the corner of Main
Cardboard on my chest
Says, “Bless...

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Your poems have
nice images.

I can't use them.

They don't drive trucks,
weld, or pour cement.

I can't wear them
like boots in the snow.

They won't keep my head
dry in the rain.

I like your images
but
don't try to pull a
fast one.

A...

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Herded on to reservations.
Their chiefs humiliated.
International witnesses killed and abused.
Geneva conventions are ignored.
Oslo agreements are trashed.
United Nation covenants and agreements denied.
Numbers were written on their foreheads.
Their homes and olive trees are destroyed.
They are killed at...

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Tears in the tar
carried far
cry the dolphin
to a passing star
...help us…
see the gulls
who now don’t fly
see the whales
who search for sky
coast of destruction
while they all stand by….

experts tweet
executives meet
“fool proof plans”
don’t mean a thing
while seagulls...

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We should rename America and call it Exxon.
Salute their new flag at the rise of dawn.
To ten of our highest ranking officials, Exxon is their top contributor. 
So do you really think that they will...

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We exploit her gifts, polluting, robbing.
Mother earth has a soul and we've
all heard her sobbing..
Too many species are now extinct.
We need to slow down, reassess, think..
Exxon, Shell, Chevron need new tools,
stop their reliance on our...

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Remember this? On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker hits a 
reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound, resulting in an enormous oil spill. 
Though there were no human victims of the crash, hundreds...

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