Do It for the Kids

It seems that every station break
She wants to drill more deep for oil.
And now Japan’s god-awful quake
Has made Americans recoil
From softening their adverse stance
About more nuclear power plants.

Chernobyl gave the whole world pause;
Three-Mile Island made us wince.
Because of real or fancied flaws,
No U.S. plant’s been started since.
Thus solar power, wave and wind
Are ways on which my hopes are pinned.

Like others, they’ve no carbon print
As do her oil and natural gas.
If nuclear has no more glint,
Republicans should vote en masse
For energy that won’t heat more
The atmosphere, as now in store.

They say they’re worried that our kids,
Inheriting our national debt,
Are likely going to hit the skids.
I’m troubled by another threat:
That rising seas, of which there’s proof,
Will relocate them to their roof.