Flatline
by Ted L Glines

thump ... da thump ... da thump

We've been given every warning
but we've paid no heed
we're about to pay the price
for allowing business greed

thump ... da thump  dit ... da thump

Wild birds cry and limp and gasp
oil coated -- painted black
cannot fly or run or breathe
as Exxon covers up its track

...thump dit ... da thump dit...

Forests gone -- clearcut bare
no more eagle's nest
no place left to pause or perch
no place left to rest

...dit ... da thump dit...

Whales are gone to hunter ships
we write them off -- close the door
money talks -- guilt walks
soon the whales will sing no more

...da dit...

Ancient hand reaching out
seeking -- no one there
no point in ever building more
no one left to care

...thump dit...

No more people -- all gone now
killed by money pump
happy cockroach -- survived them all
his planet is a landfill dump

...dit...

Lay down -- trembling
nothing now is blessed
tears dried -- hopeless ache
Gaia's heart at final rest

...............

Flatusaurus
by Ted L Glines

There once was a creature - passing strange
way before man ever walked this range,
had a puckery mouth - shell like a snail
and a hole in its flexible defensive tail.
Being a wonderful new creation
he defended himself with flatulation,
only one little thing ever made him mad
and that's if you dared to be smelling bad.
Scientists have wondered - what a mystery
why the dinos disappeared from all history
(a massive disease - a comet from space?)
the truth was a much more simple case.
Flatusaurus looked tasty and so nutritious
the dinosaurs thought he looked simply delicious,
they all tried to bite him but they had bad breath
so the dinosaurs found themselves farted to death.

Author's Notes: Okay,  so that isn't exactly how the  dinosaurs disappeared. I might as  well come clean and tell you the true story.  Bend down and I'll  whisper in your ear. You know that - just about everywhere -  they've  found all these huge dinosaur bones, but I'll bet you never heard  of  them finding any dinsosaur poop. Really makes you stop and  think, huh? And,  remember all those dinosaur pictures? Great big  mouths, great big appetites,  little bitty brain, and little bitty  anus. So they ate and they ate, and they  got bigger and bigger  and bigger ... until they exploded! Tis the truth. Got it  from  an archeologist hippy dude in the Haight-Ashbury District. Honest  Injun.

Finally - “666”
by Ted L Glines

I am going to make
a Swami-Ted prediction.
This will happen. 
There  is going to  be
a young girl named Mary,
with rich parents.
They  are going
to take her to  Japan
or Sweden
(where this technology  is now available).
An egg and some skin  cells
will be taken.
The  skin cells
and the egg
will be joined,
and the egg will  be implanted
in her womb,
where it will gestate
normally.
Her virgin pregnancy 
will be leaked
to the tabloids.
The tabloids
will have a field-day 
with the  story,
thus making her family
even wealthier.

But, there  is more.
In her seventh  month,
in a very secret
surgical procedure,
 the baby's scalp
will be tattooed 
with the number "666." 

The  tabloids will be sure
to be there
to cover
the  awesome virgin  birth,
and they will
go completely bonkers
when that "666" is  spotted. 

This will happen
because it CAN happen
and someone
will think to  do it. 
We live
in a strange world.