pitter patter (the last free sips)

"The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics" -Former United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali

pitter

patter

goes the

rain

upon

the roofs

upon the

streets

upon the

heads

of us all

walking

in the

west

to our

nearest

grocery

store or

convenient

store

with our

common

human

thirst

coming

from the

daily

grind, yet

our own

exertion

here is

absolutely

nothing

like that of

the people

in the lands

far far away,

whose

resources we

have become

experts

at squeezing

every last drop

into our cars

into our products

into our lives

& now back into

our

bodies

as we take the

last refuge---that

very nectar of

life which keeps

all of us humans

trucking here on

this planet---

 

water.

 

as bottled water

runs more expensive than

gasoline,

coca-cola &

nestle (to name

a couple) start to build “the next

empire”---one in which

fresh water

gets sucked up from wherever it

naturally flows

& pumped into tankers

owned by private companies

which will

divvy up the goods to the highest

bidders

in the near future. 

 

so to the people of the third world---

whose most valued natural resource,

of which whom some walk

miles to get every day---

we of the

west,

we of the 1^st world,

raise our middle fingers up with both hands in

tandem

shouting

“good luck, suckers!

we welcome your business in the future---

be it selling you bottled water or

cemetery plots, coffins, urns, and

shovels.”