Turquoise Monster

Science is vital the scientist said
The politicians just shook their heads
And smiled oh so very primly
they knew what’s best they said rather grimly

Science is vital the teacher cried!
The politicians shrugged and simply lied
The way they had done before
Is telling the truth such a chore?

Science is vital the nurse intoned
The politicians thought it – just another funding moan
Even with their private health care plans
They failed to see what drove – those cancer scans

Science is vital the cleaner shouted
The politicians just looked at money and counted
Forgetting to take in the longer view
Thus knotting the financials into a thornier stew

Science is vital the artist sang
The politicians ignored them till the world went bang
Or did at least for an island at the edge of the world
Crushed and broken is societal whorls

Slowly it crumbled to the sea
A brain drain leaving it’s people be
Without the intellectual resources to save themselves
This is what historians will see once they delve

A people derelict and poverty stricken
Science is vital
Why did they not listen?

Posted: Thursday, October 14th, 2010 @ 6:29 am
Categories: Performance, Poems, Science and art.
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