E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK

The poet Nick Asbury has sent along this poem as a response to Eyewear 's BP posts.  In 2008, he published a pamphlet called Corpoetics , made up of poems created by rearranging the words from corporate websites.  This is an addition to that project.  The link at the end he considers effectively part of the text. Beyond petroleum After the platforms, the ships, the refineries, After the solutions, the fuel and facilities, After the products, the light and the heat, After the pride and the corporate need, After today and what we do now, God and the world. God and the world. http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9028275&contentId=7051490

Eyewear is puzzled.  If BP stands to lose 20 billion or more dollars over this disaster-fiasco, why not spend £10 billion now, to invent some remarkable oil-sucking device?  Surely, ten billion thrown at some Nobel geniuses as a challenge, could yield a machine to do the trick.  I may be naive, but you have a hole a mile down gushing out oil under massive pressure.  Okay, that's bad.  But they got to the moon, yeah?  Why not build a huge dome or cone of some kind, lower it, and completely enclose a large swathe of the seafloor?  And send hoovering submersibles to capture the rest.  Last time I checked, they had one big pipe down there.  Why not put more down?  We're talking billions here - rather than waste that on mere pay-outs, spend it now, and get the eggheads to work!  Or, hire a hundred thousand people in small boats to each scoop oil up.  You could pay them each $10,000.