Howard to Chesnut February 19, 2018

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Seminole Lake to Seabird Sanctuary February 18, 2018

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Ozymandias redux

It’s out there hurtling towards Mars and beyond

And there’s nothing you or I can do about it

That obscene cherry red sports car discard

Posed with a spaceman mindless mannequin driving.

Obscene because it is a such a genius marketing stunt

Turning our solar system into a capitalist canvas

Orbiting the sun for millions of years as a prideful advertisement

Immortalizing the decadence of the rich and famous.

Obscene because the car is a symbol of male hegemony

Parading the lustful power and speed of a luxury roadster

Desired by balding white men compensating for their decline

Showing off spending stupid money as somehow sexy.

The man with money to burn fits the storied type

Like a modern day Edison inventing technologies

Appropriating the name Tesla who was ahead of his time

Forgetting what Edison the businessman did to crush Tesla.

The Tesla like the Tucker like the DeLorean like any exotic car

Doomed to become a relic of a moment in time

When a promoter’s vision caught the public imagination

Before everything essential behind it fell apart.

Not so many years from now Elon Musk will be dead

Like all the rest of us who are witness to his arrogance

And his orbital monument to himself will be a symbol

Left behind to remind us of his self-serving values.

This is the trash of our culture of greed and exploitation

Launched by a man who dreams of colonizing Mars

Glorified for his ambition to plunder for profit

As if the crisis of this system is not about to implode.

Walsingham February 17, 2018

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