Ode to Massey Coal - 
How to Do Energy All Wrong

You’ve been here among us too long.
Everything you’ve been doing is wrong.
You’ve messed up our rivers;
You’ve messed up our streams;
You’ve messed up our hopes;
You’ve messed up our dreams.

You’ve blown up our mountains;
You’ve taken our wells.
Instead of respect,
You’ve given us hell!
You’ve been a rotten corporate neighbor;
You’ve no respect for labor.
Now we’ve a monumental job,
Cleaning up the mess you’ve made.
And the cupboard is bare,
Because of taxes you’ve not paid.

Those ads you’re running on TV,
Trying to make you look good -
Well, they’re just not working,
You’re still a corporate hood.
That toxic sludge is so yucky,
That you dumped on Kentucky.
It’s worse than Valdez
Everybody says.

Can we recover our losses?
Ask the EPA bosses.
So stop your damnable war.
We can’t take it any more.
When we bid you good-bye,
There’ll be no tear in our eye.
So here’s to you, dear old Massey
You’ve been a pain in the ---- neck.

Winnie read her wonderful poem during the public hearing on the draft Environmental Impact Statement on mountaintop removal/valley fill coal mining at the Charleston Civic Center on July 24.