TOXIC SUNSET OF HOME

AUSTRALIAN EASTERN-SEABOARD 12/2004

damn that Kyoto Protocol...
Took her time getting here...
Cold-comfort...
As the mercury drips down the fin of the dolphin...
As the seal gasps for breath on the sand...

Love those...
Toxic sunsets of Home-Sweet-Home...
Polluted shorelines...
B&W sepia's of 1920s Swedish fishermen...
And artistic dropouts riding-the-Nordic-waves...

Behind our surf-kulture-krazy facades...
>> Beached whales >>
Extreme-fucking-armchair-eco-terrorism...

Well...
Looky here...
At pretty Miss "Noctiluca" phosphorous....
Beautiful ain't she...

See how she hugs our shoreline...
Her pretty...
Noxious orange glow...
Lights up our night-sky...

"Nothing to worry about, folks..." say the experts.
"Warm stable conditions prompt the nutrients to flourish,
causing the long, red slick. It's not toxic...but avoid contact."

Kyoto...
No one's listening here, babe...

Ecology-ocide...
Superiority-ocide...
It wasn't supposed to happen this way...

TASMANIA KING ISLAND 12/2004

53-long-finned-whales...
Litter the fucking coast...
Bloated by pollution...
And by our indifference...

"It's unusual but not highly unusual for whales or dolphins to get beached together. But to have banjo sharks as well > Well something weird is going on here." Environmental Services..

Global-warming-alarm-bells...
Extreme droughts...
We're melting the ice-caps...
For chrissake...
Landslides...
Hurricanes...
Floods...
Come in: The Phillipines...
1,000 dead > or missing...

Right now...
I'm looking...
deep...
Into...
The...
Ocean...

Her skin...
The color of...
Pale granite...
So psychedelically grey...
So Camelot blue...
So...
Still-teeming-with-life...

Soon...
Noctiluca will come...
All radioactive charm...
And unearthly glow...

damn...
From-Camelot-to-acid-rain...
In a fucking heartbeat...
Toxic sunsets are the New Riviera...
And Home-Sweet-Home...
Will never look the same again...

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