Glacial response
A million ton tanker,
A city block on brine
Propped and moving
The very impossible
Is easier far to shift
Than such ice-born
Behemoth opinions.
Sloth, idly lounged,
Perched prone asleep
Are quicker to rouse
Than such a wanton
And glacial response
That house-groaning
Tortoise would blush.
We have bumbled a
Habitat for ourselves
With a bulldozer eye,
Devouring the world
With our greedy maws:
As if we're immune to
Being bitten in return.
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