{"id":5418,"date":"2023-04-20T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T07:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/?p=5418"},"modified":"2023-04-19T18:07:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T17:07:43","slug":"tufton-street-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/tufton-street-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Tufton Street: A Poem<\/span>Jacqueline Saphra<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

We gather here in love and rage<\/p>\n

to tell the story of our age,<\/p>\n

to ring the bell, to write the page,<\/p>\n

to raise the roof, rattle the cage,<\/p>\n

expose the lies, call out the cheats<\/p>\n

who foster, posture, pant and pitch<\/p>\n

deadly denial, rank and rich,<\/p>\n

and peddle death at Tufton Street<\/p>\n

and peddle death at Tufton Street<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Sound the alarm and ring the bell<\/p>\n

of Exxon, BP, Chevron, Shell<\/p>\n

who machinate in parallel<\/p>\n

to send us down to climate hell.<\/p>\n

They build their case, they take their seats<\/p>\n

while trading shares in human lives.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re cheek to cheek with fifty-five,<\/p>\n

the horror house of Tufton Street<\/p>\n

the horror house of Tufton Street<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

They\u2019re selling oil and climate porn<\/p>\n

my friends; this is a perfect storm<\/p>\n

designed to twist and misinform.<\/p>\n

The soft skin of the earth is torn<\/p>\n

her bones are melting in the heat<\/p>\n

while devils trade in murky tanks<\/p>\n

amassing billions in the bank<\/p>\n

of oily gold from Tufton Street<\/p>\n

of oily gold from Tufton Street<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But when they face what they\u2019ve ignored<\/p>\n

which fool will fall upon their sword<\/p>\n

and tell the chairman of the board<\/p>\n

they\u2019ve failed because their plan is flawed?<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll play denial on repeat<\/p>\n

from boat to bunker they will bleat<\/p>\n

this isn\u2019t fair on the elite;<\/p>\n

but if our human edifice should fall,<\/p>\n

from city slum to penthouse suite<\/p>\n

the fire and flood will take us all.<\/p>\n

So say goodbye to Tufton Street,<\/p>\n

goodbye, goodbye to Tufton Street.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jacqueline Saphra<\/strong> is a poet, playwright, teacher and activist. She is the author of nine plays, five chapbooks and four poetry collections. Her second collection,\u00a0<\/em>All My Mad Mothers was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and her\u00a0fifth,\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Velvel\u2019s Violin<\/span>will be out from Nine Arches Press in July 2023. Jacqueline is a teacher and mentor for The Poetry School and a founder member of Poets for the Planet.\u00a0https:\/\/www.jacquelinesaphra.com<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  We gather here in love and rage to tell the story of our age, to ring the bell, to write the page, to raise the roof, rattle the cage, expose the lies, call out the cheats who foster, posture, pant and pitch deadly denial, rank and rich, and peddle death at Tufton Street and […]<\/p>\n

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