Who's the Louse in the House?

There once was a louse 

on a mouse 

in a house 

of a souse 

whose spouse 

would grouse 

about rising levels of CO2 in the air causing resulting rising levels of the sea which is getting more acidic with dead zones bigger than the state of Texas and islands of plastic floating on the ocean becoming saturated with bits of plastic that fill the bellies of starving turtles and whales who starve to death anyway even though their bellies are full of non-edible food like the plastic disintegrating in the extra strong UV rays of the sun because of the hole in the ozone caused by chemicals made by corporations whose sole mandate is to make a profit for their share holders no matter who and what they harm because so many politicians are in the corporations’ pockets making the rich richer the poor poorer and driving 150 species a day out of house and home and into extinction because the billions of people on the planet are too distracted by state terrorism and failing crops and extreme weather destroying their houses and then there is the distraction of their cell phones and going to the corporate medical industrial complex to try and cure the cancers and other ailments they get from the electromagnetic field radiation of their cell phones and cell towers and Smart Meters and whatever else the corporations make because profit is more important than planet and people, 

but some of the billions of people 

are starting to unify in solidarity 

more 

and more 

and roar 

like lions 

for justice.

About this poem

This poem is part of my Solstice solar year poem cycle, where I write a poem a day from June 22, 2019 to June 21, 2020. The poem a day may get posted on a different day than it was written, or several poems might get posted on the same day. And if I choose to submit a poem to a literary journal, I delete it from this blog before doing so. That's my project. I hope it touches your soul and makes you think. And maybe inspires you to write more poems of your own.