The Ecology Song

Homo sapiens

This unusual and highly successful species
Spends a great deal of time examining his
higher motives
And an equal amount of time studiously
Ignoring his fundamental ones.

He is proud that he has the biggest brain
Of the primates
But attempts to conceal the fact
That he has the biggest penis.

Clearly, he is the sexiest primate alive.

Chorus:
Oh we’re picking up the butts
And we’re breaking up the bottles
We’re saving up the cans
And we’re wiping our ass with our finger
And we’re wiping our ass with our finger

Red Tide

G. breve belongs to the dinoflagellates,
Whirling organisms with whip-like appendages
An uncommonly talented class of plankton.

Dinoflagellates use sunlight to
Transform sea nutrients into energy.
A red eye spot guides them
To their proper light levels.

Like men, Dinoflagellates are mobile,
Driven by currents, winds, and their
Slim whiplike appendages.

Under a microscope they are
As exquisite as tiny jewel boxes.
These unique organisms, half-animal,
Half-plant, drift cloudlike inside the sea,
Fine as fog, good grazing for fish and whales.

These clouds can, however,
Burst into frantic fertility.
G. breve will suddenly jump
From one thousand to the quart
To an incredible sixty million.
A bloom becomes so dense
That the eyespots of its members
Color the sea.

Chorus:
Oh we’re picking up the butts
And we’re breaking up the bottles
We’re saving up the cans
And we’re wiping our ass with our finger
And we’re wiping our ass with our finger

Optimism

It is still an open question
Whether man will be able to survive
The exceedingly complex
And unstable ecological conditions
He has created for himself.

If he fails in this task,
Interplanetary archeologists of the future
Will classify our planet
As one in which a very long and stable period
Of small scale hunting and gathering

Was followed by an apparently instantaneous
Efflorescence of technological society
Leading to extinction.

‘ Stratographically ‘
The origin of agriculture and
Thermo-nuclear destruction
Will appear
As essentially simultaneous.

Chorus:
Oh we’re picking up the butts
And we’re breaking up the bottles
We’re saving up the cans
And we’re wiping our ass with our finger
And we’re wiping our ass with our finger

Edison S. "Pinky" Fisk

© Edison S. Fisk, 2009. All rights reserved.