Dear BP

oil slicked wings
don't fly
oil covered birds
usually starve
their wings flap
progressively slower
as oil dries
into sludge
sometimes their hearts burst
in terror
if they're lucky.

but then we don't use birds
as currency
we use oil
and oil covered
ducklings
are the richest sons of bitches
in the gulf
but they're not the envy
of pelicans
or fish
or any other fowl
because
most of them
are
already
dead.