Dear habitual marauder,

Here is what I wish to know:

Will you learn to behave yourself,

If I should now let go?

 

Or will you re-double your shenanigans

To profit-maximize,

Ravaging what remains of earth’s

Ice-caps, forests, oceans, skies?

 

Will the lesson I bring to you

Lead you to a new address,

Where the fruits of work belong to all,

And “progress” is shared happiness?

 

Should you, however, wish away

My instructive pandemic,

Know that nothing will survive

My next terminal visit.

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