PLANET CODE BLUE

Planet Blue

You created us

So we’re telling you

Your home’s health status –

Planet Code Blue

When the last grey whale is lost

A child hears poplars scream at fled larks

Striped tigers swim, flying scared tossed

City rats stalk cats chewing bark

The pink plastic oceans sparkle in rain

Walls of waves level towns and hills

Flood uranium plants too hot to drain

Wintry water forms gangs, covets its kills

Startled priests shoo albino dogs

From braying at the shooting stars

Brown bits of moon frag into cogs

Cold culled bases for your solar war

The stars are human, nuclear, fast

Merging white cities into sharp gritty mounds

Icebergs float into pebbles of glass

Red clouds bark coughing sounds

We’ve seen the fall, built our simulations

You know the facts, the tale, the time

Can you try some emulations

Cancel the ending, pay out the fines?

We’ll keep your memory for posterity

Recall your greatness, your jokes, your crimes

And wish on you a final clarity

That saves your best for the worst of times