In the Next Life, Canto I, stanzas 58-62

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So Project SIRE emerges as replanned,
with little notice given of the birth,
and few will know for what the letters stand:
Survival In Rejuvenated Earth.

A few unnoticed journalists protest,
but most have been conditioned to such waste.
What’s underwater can’t hold interest
with presidential scandals more the taste.

The founders know, however, that they can’t
rely indefinitely on their source.
They’ve built a most impressive cart, I’ll grant.
To pull it, though, they’ll need a mighty horse.

You see the rub: They have no guarantee
that what they fear will ever come to pass
unless they do what seems (at least, to me)
unthinkably immoral, even crass.

They’ll get their chance to save what they esteem
if the destruction that they would avert
occurs before the light falls on their scheme.
To take this medicine will really hurt.

©2010 Louis A. Merrimac

Presidential scandals: This was written shortly after the Monica Lewinsky scandal of 1998.