Ode to Massey Coal -
How to Do Energy All Wrong
by Winnie Fox
Youve been here among us too long.
Everything youve been doing is wrong.
Youve messed up our rivers;
Youve messed up our streams;
Youve messed up our hopes;
Youve messed up our dreams.
Youve blown up our mountains;
Youve taken our wells.
Instead of respect,
Youve given us hell!
Youve been a rotten corporate neighbor;
Youve no respect for labor.
Now weve a monumental job,
Cleaning up the mess youve made.
And the cupboard is bare,
Because of taxes youve not paid.
Those ads youre running on TV,
Trying to make you look good -
Well, theyre just not working,
Youre still a corporate hood.
That toxic sludge is so yucky,
That you dumped on Kentucky.
Its worse than Valdez
Everybody says.
Can we recover our losses?
Ask the EPA bosses.
So stop your damnable war.
We cant take it any more.
When we bid you good-bye,
Therell be no tear in our eye.
So heres to you, dear old Massey
Youve been a pain in the ---- neck.
Winnie read her wonderful poem during the public hearing on the draft
Environmental Impact Statement on mountaintop removal/valley fill coal
mining at the Charleston Civic Center on July 24.
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