National Poetry Writing Month Five

Prompt: This is a mash-up of tweets about the climate crisis and the opening lines of the TV show "The Bionic Man"

Rage Against The Dying

High North wails a dirge
     Technology we have
A dead planet does not toil.

Speed and scale
     We can rebuild
High North wails a dirge.

Emitting harm
     We can make
A dead planet does not toil.

Voices of the sacrifice zone
     Better, stronger, faster
High North wails a dirge.

Twice the rate
     Than was Austin
A dead planet does not toil.

Larger efficiencies
     Barely alive
High North wails a dirge
A dead planet does not toil.