Leaky pipelines cannot excuse
The vileness of your touch
As it seeps malevolently
From its ancient, grainy prison;
Your eccentric composition
Creating chemical fingerprints
That dance lightly across the
Soft and drifting breeze,
Masking your toxic presence
To finger innocuous fields
Of rice and herded scapegoats
With the legacy of your shame.
Blinded by the proceeds
That flow like pyrite from
Your snaking tendrils,
We welcome your loose embrace
Like a panacea to a sickness
That we no longer wish to cure.
Filling our skies and lungs with
Your filthy expirations until
It is too late.
Too late for you to crawl back
Underneath the rock from
Which you came.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique designed to recover gas and oil from
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