a hard rain's gonna fall

birds don't stop being birds
when October is warm
when hurricanes pound the south
when drought hits California
when ignorance rules like a blind wind
when compassion is sold on e-bay
when all the bicycle riders and electric car drivers
and oil company divestors
and anti-fracking activists
have been silenced or outlawed
or jailed

birds don't stop being birds

they fly into glass windows
of multi-national corporate offices
like so much hard rain
breaking their necks and beaks
their little hearts beat
their little hearts sing a melancholy song
for the passing of the great wayward brute
and the glorious planet
that will live again
in a different form