Chile’s Firestorms, Shell’s Subsidies

Twenty twenty-three,
Fossil fuel’d heatwaves
December thru February
Endlessly,
Fossil fuel’d droughts
Fossil fuel’d hellfires,
Chile SOS!

Shell boasts record
$40bn yearly profits
Unashamedly
$224bn subsidies,
Shrieking Shell
Wreaking Hell!

One hundred ninety-one
Climate firestorms,
Nine hundred
Razed homes,
Shrieking billions
Vapourised animals,
Forty Celsius
(One hundred-four Fahrenheit),
Never known
Till now!

Share windfall Shell,
Britons shivering
Chileans broiling
Nature extinguish’d,
Earthly compassion,
Zero-combustion World,
Twenty-thirty!

© 2023 Reese Halter

Agitate. Disrupt. Defend.


Reese Halter

Reese Halter is a bees/trees/seas defender.
Unearthly Wails is a special edition, a collection of poetry
illustrated by renowned Ojibwa artist Terry McCue.
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