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Marine Species Extinctions Feared (poem)

By Sandra J. Fulton

A headline quote:
"Marine Species Extinctions Feared"—
Undersea life in peril
From profiteering,

The writer wrote.
Floating dead fish had appeared
In seas polluted sterile.
My eyes were blearing.

Again I read
That terrifying banner line.
Undersea predation?
Or desert dying?

Young warriors dead
In dry Iraq, like fish in brine,
From cold exploitation
And falsifying.

None will return,
Those brave and dead Marines of ours,
Purposeless brigades
Forever linked.

Mourn with concern
Any deaths that greed devours.
Break down the barricades—
Or go extinct.

—Sandra J. Fulton