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PELICAN  WINGS SOAKED WITH OIL SITTING IN THE WETLANDS

THE PELICAN:
JUST SITTING IN THE WETLAND:
HIS WINGS ARE CAKED WITH OIL TOO HEAVY FOR HIM TO FLY:
HE HELPLESSLY SITS IN THE WETLANDS STARVING FIGHTING TO BREATHE AND JUST WAITING TO DIEl

THE VAST WETLANDS ARE THE BREEDING GROUNDS TO SO MANY MIGRATORY SPECIES OF WILD BIRDS:
THIS OIL LEAK IN THE GULF HAS SEEPED INTO THE WETLANDS AND RUINED THE NESTING GROUNDS IT IS ABSURD:
WHEN YOU SEE THESE WILD BIRDS DRENCHED IN OIL FROM HEAD TO TOE YOU FEEL SO TERRIBLE SICK YA KNOW:
THIS OIL DISASTER HAS NOW SPREAD FROM THE OCEAN ONCE SO BLUE TO TO VIRGIN WETLANDS LOW:

THE BP--OIL COMPANY MUST PAY FOR THIS DEVASTATING OIL SPILL THE WORLD MUST DEMAND:
TOGETHER FOR THE GULF RESTORATION CLEAN UP WE MUST ALL LEND A HELPING HAND:
CAN YOU IMAGINE A NEWBORN BABY WHEN THEY ARE IN PAIN:
WHEN YOU SEE THE WILDLIFE SUFFERING YOU FEEL THE SAME:

WILDLIFE THEY CAN SURVIVE NATURES MOST VIOLENT HURRICANE AND STORM:
BUT THIS MAN MADE BP--OIL SPILL THEY DONT KNOW HOW TO FIGHT IT ITS NOT THE NORM:
IN THE GULF WE HOPE ALL THE WILD BIRDS AGAIN FLY:
FREE AND WILD IN THE SKY:

WE KNOW NATURE ALWAYS FINDS A WAY TO SURVIVE:
BUT THIS TIME IT WILL TAKE MAN TO HELP THEM LIVE AND THRIVE:
A PROUD PELICAN ALL DRENCHED IN OIL:
HIS WETLANDS NOW LAY IN SPOIL:


THIS I HOPE IS A WAKE UP CALL TO MAN THAT MOTHER EARTH HAS TO BE RESPECTED:
NEVER AGAIN BY MAN TO BE NEGLECTED:

11-JULY--2010:
JOHN D. JUNGERS


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PELICAN WINGS SOAKED WITH OIL SITTING IN THE WETLANDS