Texas Gush

The Texas Gush

Surge in Baghdad and soldiers build
walls how banal, as the ocean surges
and islands disappear in the pacific;

let’s invade Nepal now, ring it with
a wall of soldiers and be safe; as sea
rises we can just climb higher up;

till we reach a bergs top, spend time
pushing each other off till there is
only one left and he kills himself;

a cold rock on the vast sea no wall
to stop its surges, but will the world
be free of annoying seagull shrikes?