Once We Had Oil Poem
Once young man we drove on
roads of oil.
We had so much oil we made grocery bags
out of it,
grocery bags!
Once young man we drove 5000 pound
cars to buy a 12 ounce
loaf of bread.
Once young man we drank 12 teaspoons of sugar
in our drinks
we were fat and rich then son.
Those were the good old days.
Why we once made trash cans in China out of oil
and shipped them across the whole ocean
on a boat pushed by that oil.
We paved our roads with the stuff.
Yessir those were good days.
Why I once was pulled behind a boat on a rope.
We could ride around every Sunday
in our 5000 pound car.
We could drive all the way across this country
just on a whim.
We called them vacations.
We had so much oil we could ship
a strawberry 2000 miles.
David Michael Jackson 2012
The last poem was Softness Poem by Daria Michelle Jacq. The next poem is Who are the Last Prisoners of Our War ~ by Ashton Bergoyne Smith
