You ARE BP -To a woman waiting in a minivan for the library to open on a warm spring morning: Revolutionary ConTEXTing Haiku Rant Lament

You sit in your car./
It idles while you wait long./
Why are you BP?

We Make The Gulf Weep: Revolutionary ConTEXTing Haiku

This was written while the BP oil well was pumping tons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, and everyone was yelling about how terrible it is that oil companies are polluting the world. I walked by a line of cars waiting to board the ferry … waiting and running.
We all are guilty.

Oil-sucking cars wait/
in line. Polluting motors/
run while the Gulf weeps.

OR
Oil-sucking cars wait/
in line, stopped, their polluting/
motors still running.

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