REQUIEM FOR BP, THE BATTLES OF OBAMA THE KING

Oct. 8, 2016

AND BEHOLD, IN THE DAYS THAT CAME TO PASS, THE PEOPLES OF THE EARTH BEGAN TO DEVELOP A STRANGE UNNATURAL HUNGER FOR THE OILS OF SATAN, AND KNOWING THIS WELL, THE GIANT COMPANY CALLED BP DID STRETCH OUT ITS TENTACLES DEEP INTO THE OCEAN AND DUG A FAIR PIT DEEP INTO THE NAVEL OF THE EARTH IN AN OCEAN CALLED THE GULF, AND SO IT CAME TO PASS THAT THE WELL BLEW OUT ITSELF AND VERY MUCH OIL WAS SPILLED AGAINST THE FACE OF THE AMERICAS.

AND THAT NIGHT - A GREAT CRY DID ECHO FROM THE PEOPLES OF THE GULF AND HAVING LOST ALL THEIR WEALTH AND BELONGINGS TO THAT GREAT SEA OF OIL, THEY VENTED THEIR ANGER AGAINST THE OIL GIANT MR. BP.

AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT THE COMMANDER OF THE BP HAVING FELT VERY SORRY FOR HIS SINS, CRIED OUT TO THE HEAVENS TO GET BACK HIS LIFE ... AND HIS MIGHTY CRY REACHED OUT TO THE HIGH CHIEF OF THE SENATE, THE MIGHTY OBAMA - RULER OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS NATION AND IT DID TOUCH HIS SPIRIT WITH A SPECIAL OPPRESSION. AND THE RULER TOOK A TERRIBLE OATH THAT STRETCHED FROM THE MOUNT OF WASHINGTON TO THE TURBULENCE OF THE GULFS FURTHEST REACHES AND THE MIGHTY RULER SWORE THAT SOMEDAY HE WOULD GIVE BACK TO THIS TERRIBLE CHIEF THE LIFE HE HAD LAID DOWN INTO THE WELL.

AND AS THE SUN RULES THE DAY AND THE LOFTY MOON THE NIGHT, THE MIGHTY OBAMA DID VENT HIS ANGER AND SCORN UPON THE CHIEFTAIN OF THE BP. AND THIS ANGERED THE COUNTRY MEN OF THE HIGH CHIEFTAIN OF THE BP.

AND IN THE LAND OF HIS BIRTH, OVERLORD, THE CHIEFTAIN OF BP WAS FILLED WITH A BITTERLY RESENTMENT THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE GULF HAS SO INSULTED HIS CHIEFTAIN OF THE BP THAT HE TOOK AN OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE QUEEN ...

AND IT IS SAID THAT,

WHEREAS THE SEA WAS ALWAYS A PLACE OF PURITY AND SACRIFICE TO MOTHER NATURE, THE WANTON OILS OF THE BP HAVE STAINED THE WATERS RED ... AND AT THE CRACK OF DAWN, A TERRIBLE CRY AROSE FROM THE PEOPLES OF THE GULF THAT THEIR WATERS WERE POISONED AND FILTHY...

AND WITH A SINGLE VOICE THEY VOWED TO MAKE THE MIGHTY BP PAY ...

AND A PRICE FELL UPON THE SHAVEN HEADS OF THE MIGHTY BP AND THEY WERE HEAVILY TAXED TO PAY FOR THE WEIGHT OF THEIR SINS.

AND ON THE MOUNTAIN OF WASHINGTON THE MIGHTY OBAMA, SITTING ON HIS POLISHED THRONE, DENOUNCED THE CHIEFTAIN OF THE MIGHTY BP, AND SPOKE HARSH WORDS OF BRIMSTONE AND FIRE UPON THE MAN ... AND HIS COUNTRY-MEN WERE INCENSED AND FEARED FOR HIS LIFE ... THE SAME LIFE HE HAD SO WILLINGLY LAID DOWN INTO THE WELL ... AND WITH ONE VOICE THEY WISHED HIM TO TAKE IT UP AGAIN....

AND AS THE MIGHTY DAYS OF BP NUMBERED, THE WELL OF DISASTER FLUSHED OIL AND GREASE AGAINST THE FACE OF THIS MIGHTY NATION AND THE PEOPLES OF THE EARTH WERE FILLED WITH FEAR AND THEY WORRIED AND TREMBLED INTO THE STILLNESS OF THE NIGHT ...

AND BEHOLD, THE JUDGES OF THE EARTH WERE THEN CORRUPTED AND FILLED WITH VENOM AGAINST THE GREAT KING OBAMA, THE RIGHTFUL RULER OF THE NATION, AND THEY TURNED AGAINST HIM WITH THEIR WORDS, AND WITH THEIR HANDS, THEY FAVOURED THE RICH AND THE WEALTHY AND GREED TICKLED THEIR TONGUES WITH GUILE AND THEY WOULD NOT REPENT FOR THEIR SINS AGAINST THE RULER....

AND IN THE HOURS THAT SPEEDILY FOLLOWED, THE ALMIGHTY POWER OF NATURE CAME TO BEAR AGAINST THE ARMS OF THE NATION AND A RED TIDE AROSE AGAINST THE LANDS AND SWAMPS AND MARSHES ... AND THE MIND OF MAN WAS FILLED WITH FEAR....

THAT NIGHT THE CALM OBAMA SAT UPRIGHT IN DEEP REFLECTIVE SILENCE THE NIGHTS CHILL LIGHTENED HIS DEEPLY FURROWED BROW WITH LITTLE POINTS OF LIGHT HIS CALM BROWN FINGERS CLASPED THE SIGNIFICATIONS OF STATE WITH A TWIRL. THE FIREPLACE TWINKLED INTO THE NIGHT THE EMBERS SUBLIMED INTO SWEETNESS

A STUDIOUS GLOW ENSUED....A DELICATE SENSE OF STREAMING WARMTH FILLED THE OFFICE AS THE DARKNESS FELL, AN OWL HOOTED.... THEN SET THE SUN
NIGHT WAS UPON THE WHITE HOUSE SOON THE SENTRIES WOULD ARRIVE ORDERS WOULD BE GIVEN, THE NIGHT SHIFT WOULD BEGIN IN ERNEST. OH LORD HE PRAYED, WOULD THAT YOUR PEOPLE COULD SEE THE

ERRORS OF THEIR SILLY WAYS WHY MUST DISASTER ALWAYS COURT US UNPREPARED? LOOK AT THE BATTLE THAT I MUST FIGHT, OH LORD, THE SEA TIDE IS RUNNING RED THE LOBSTERS CRINGE IN TERROR

THE CRABS ARE BAKED DEAD....NAKED ON THE SANDS
STRENGTHEN ME OH LORD, STRENGTHEN MY ARMS, GIVE MY INTELLIGENCE A CLEAR DIRECTION THAT I MAY RIGHTFULLY DEAL WITH THIS PESTILENCE A FLASH, THEN HE THOUGHT: "THOUGH THE ALMIGHTY WEIGHT OF HEAVEN SELF MAY FALL UPON MY SHOULDERS BROAD, STILL, WHEN UNDER PRESSURE I AM PLACED VAIN CAN I RESIST THE FRAGRANT SMELL OF OIL IP THE STERN FACE OF THE RULER RELAXED HE KNEW NOW WHAT MUST BE DONE

AND HOW HE MUST ACT

THE CANTICLES OF THE GULF SAGA