Canaries

Small cage with canary bird used in testing for carbon monoxide gas.
Hollinger Mine, Timmons, Ontario, Canada. Mine Fire 02/10/1928

Canaries

Headlines depict the signs accruing.

Still, pernicious practices persist,

heedlessness firmly adhered to.

Denial is all the rage; after all,

there’s no problem compla-

cent cash can’t fix – if

you’ve got enough

of the stuff,

(am I right?)

But,

some mess-

(ag)es were never

meant to be ignored.

Heed (please) this word

to the unwise – not you & I,

that is, but those (un-)cooperative

others:  it’s past time to transmogrify

into coal miners, attune to canaries’ quietude.

 PSC/2014-Apr

Written for 2014 April PAD Challenge: Day 2 – A MESSAGE poem