Grounded

Europe is grounded by second hand smoke
As Hell prepares the barbeques for a bumper crop
Of bankers, brokers, Monsanto and health care reformers.
Got to turn up the heat.

Global warming.
Carbon emissions probably don’t help
But considering the elbowing among those rushing for the bowels of Hell
Hell must be growing.
The immoral infrastructure of our world is being upgraded.
Brimstone had to be fetched from Mars and Pluto.

I’ll be damned.
I’ll be insured. I’ll be in debt, up Shit’s Creek, in the same boat,
I’ll be a volcano.
Right now I’m just smoking.

Don Arrup
Satire1