Ego, ergo Eco

Frogs float in a saucepan
Giggling at the bubbles
Ignorant in increments

Gum-flappers on CSPAN
Twaddling ideologues
Impotent in dependence

Polar bears strand themselves
On frozen funeral shelves
As the arctic circle melts

Facebook narcissism
Deepening the schism
Between the faceless billions

Unwired, unwitting, hired
(For cheap but not for keeps)
So artificial revenue
Growth unfettered can continue
Leaping greatly forward,

Nevermind us waking from
This Somnium Americana,

Uneasy with extremes
We dream of tropic paradigms
And hot springs hoping
Not to stir this slumber
While the numbers bear the tidings
To our coast-along habit.

Assume blind justice serves us later,
Last, or not at all (the end's always
Depending on your means)
Please just assimilate us faster
In this melting (boiling) pot
Of man's self-made disaster.