Archimedes' Ocean
A man runs naked down the city street Water dripping from his shoe-less feet He cries, "Eureka! The answer is complete! Displacement is the volume's balance sheet!" The secret of the bath is finally won The water's cryptic knowledge is undone And manifest, flows forth as waters run The hydrologic cycle has begun Five oceans are the oceans' hydrosphere Where ever water flows, the fact is clear From bath to sea, from lake to stream and weir The universal law does yet adhere And so we "drop by drop" into the sea From butts to straws, from ships to NSP, We defecate, acidify and pee As struggling island nations pay the fee The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is fed The North Pacific Gyre is its bed And blanketed with nurdles, as they spread, Eurythenes plasticus has been bred Warming, melting, rising, poisoned, lost The balance of the deep blue, double crossed The biologic pump will bear the cost As the stewards manufacture holocaust
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