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I am Florida’s Lake Okeechobee
by Timothy WilsonThe depths of my angst build on and on as we know that this is not a strictly sunshine state
Not the happy tan youths lining beaches and throwing footballs
Not the state you see in free brochures littering a stand at your local highway rest stop
Don’t take one just because it says to
Sometimes there is way too much polluted water in me
The floodgates or my mouth open and every local canal, river, estuary, and causeway is tainted with the shock
Sorry for being the source of your nasty brackish water that doesn’t make the brochure
Next time you think of sunshine year round, think of elderly drivers, humidity, pollution, flooding, and me
07/12/2011 Posted on 07/12/2011
Copyright © 2025 Timothy Wilson
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by E. A. Pugh on 07/12/11 at 11:14 PM
:) Sure you are not the cause of Florida's trouble but I do admire your blending with state and self. As an armchair environmentalist I appreciate your calling attention to the flaws with water management. The army core of engineers recently released a statement saying they will no longer use dykes and levies for water management but focus instead upon flood plains and marshland. I would love to see and America with flood planes and free flowing water. You are right those brochures are just like the holiday cards I get from relatives. “Everything is perfect here” My holiday card may contain a brown cake so I never send them. I know this isn’t the usual comment post but I open to flood plains and bogs.
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