Four Images of Deepwater Horizon

(midnight – promoted by Nightprowlkitty)

Volunteers cleaning a beach in Louisiana

Oil slick approaching Channeleur Islands (Mark Ralston, AFP/Getty Images)

White speck upper-right is an oil rig

Shrimp boats pulling booms

Not Waving But Drowning

Nobody heard him, the dead man,  

But still he lay moaning:

I was much further out than you thought  

And not waving but drowning.

Poor chap, he always loved larking

And now he’s dead

It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,  

They said.

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always  

(Still the dead one lay moaning)  

I was much too far out all my life  

And not waving but drowning.

-Stevie Smith