There's A Fly In My Chemical Soup

Our politicians are like Grover on Sesame Street
They'll try to put one over
Real discreet;

After all,
Grover did deny
In his customer's soup

He spotted a fly;

The irate customer sent back the goop;

And instead of admitting he saw the fly
Grover acted out;
A bald faced lie 

When Grover got caught he used spin

He insisted,
Fly Soup, 

Was what the fly was in.

The customer would have been better off ordering a burrito

The soup Grover brought him back, was cream of mosquito!

One little fly and the whole bowl did spoil
Like the chemicals we consume, derived from oil
You worked your fingers to the bone;
Ye did toil
So our kids could play in contaminated soil?

Our planet was once like a bowl of hearty gumbo
No need for True Detectives,
Or even Columbo

Conservatives label climate change
Liberal mumbo jumbo
Like the elephant and the mouse,
We often look like Dumbo.

Petrochemicals we consume,
Like Bisphenol A
What's a little bit of poison
to a real hoser Eh?
What're you going to do?
We shrug and say,
They make baby bottles from it
We all die anyway!
If we're going to poison ourselves,
And make our kids pay,
And corporations have more money than they can weigh,
Why in hell shouldn't they pay?

If it were one chemical that'd be fine
But it's a chemical soup
Like a pickle in a brine
Of benzene, toluene, propene, ethylene -
Take your pick,
Give Suncor, Imperial or Dow
A license to -
Make me sick!
Don't worry one bit
You have nothing to fear,
You still have your job
You love your career!

Keep the multinationals happy
Or move away, they may
To exploit the impoverished
For a fraction of the pay;
Hell, fly soup's not so bad,
Their political friends would say;
Poison the public!
And then tell the media!
Make them look the other away!