When Oil Spills Over; When Gas Ignites

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

BACKFLOW

In Federation Day statistics

One from ten left naught

And for Bolivars these days

Regionalism can be

sold and bought

For fifty percent discounts

And thirty days energy pacts

And twenty-five year loans

On one percent interest back

In Federation Day statistics

One from ten left naught

And for Bolivars these days

Regionalism can be

sold and bought

For built storage tanks

From shore to shore

So twelve from fifteen left three

And no more

In Federation Day statistics

One from ten left naught

But for Bolivars these days

Regionalism can be

sold and bought

For Petro Caribe allegiance

And market share divergence

To make Trinis distraught

And still pipelines flow

From South to North

With no fail safety valve

To prevent blowout

When rumored embargoes

Create real doubt

and back flows prepare

for the re-route

In Federation Day statistics
One from ten left naught

But regional mathematics says

Twelve plus three makes fifteen

Prepare for backflow!

When Oil Spills Over;When Gas Ignites

Saturday, May 26, 2018

WHERE VULTURES REST

The vultures have found a haven

Right here in the caribbean
And for one to two percent tax

They roost and relax

Where flying fish dips

and Mt-Gay rum sips
And withholding tax schemes

flourish

The vultures have found a haven

Right here in the caribbean
Where goods,services

and money, move freely

On account of a regional treaty
And millions of Trinbago oil money

Goes from subsidiary
to parent oil company

Tax avoidance now, our reality
For the vultures have found a haven
And the only carrion there, is we!

When Oil Spills Over;When Gas Ignites

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

STRIKERS OF THE SOUTHERLIES

We love to strike

against order

against loss

against anything

that is against us

We love to strike

against change

against longterm plans

against progress

against hard times

in this land

We love walk outs

small talk, sit outs

law suits, shut downs

We love to strike

strike,strike

good resources down

We love to strike

Like stick fighters

In the night

Engaging hype

We give real blows

And crave bragging rights

We love to win rounds

And protests in town

Like standing clowns

Juggling rods of dishonesty

and integrity

and powers

We love a strike

but we don’t love tears

of unemployment

or deployment

or dissolutions

We only love enjoyment

And to Strike

balls away from

the goal post of strategy

Using trickery and

bribery to dodge

red cards and stay

in the refinery

Until we strike out

Our chances of betterment

When the money disappears

And the crowd no longer cheers

And regional counterparts jeer

at our love of strike

But we don’t love to bleed

The way we bled

When we struck the rock

Like a Boboli

And the black blood

Raced from the veins

of this country

Into the pockets of few

And the hopes of many

We love to strike

Like, little Triniboys

And little Trinigirls

Strikers of the Southerlies

Caribbean

With childish mentalities

We strike

And hold our ground

in attacks

Making monkey tricks

Ready to strike back

Until our mirror cracks!

When Oil Spills Over;When Gas Ignites

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

OIL TREES

There are oil trees on the oil fields

With branches that span generations

They have hedge like mentalities

That are detrimental to this nation

Oil trees like mangroves

Along the Caroni Swamp

Heart rooted and expansive

They keep good workers out

There are oil trees on the oil fields

Growing in patches all around

Making paper like bamboo to

Cover secrets that are found

Good tree house material

Hosting entire families

There are oil trees on our oil fields

Which sabotage economy

These oil trees are quite clever

And like parasites they feed

On the resources of this nation

With blatant acts, of personal greed

The country’s profit is not their aim

Nepotism and cronyism sprouts

So for the safety of our oil yields

We must root these oil trees out