River Pains and Judgments

Ezekiel 12:17-28

O rebellious house,

see how her waters climb

and ripen with their passing?

Drink your water with trembling.

For who knows, what things

of humanity’s foolish disruption

she has consumed?

Mortal, eat you bread with quaking,

while colonies of E-coli dance,

prance, and prattle, on

her slowly sinking swell.

The land shall become a desolation.

As Platte flows to flat,

she is the rotting answer,

of fevered prayers for rain.

The days are prolonged,

and every vision comes to nothing,

but the word that I speak

will be fulfilled.