The anagram contains a constraint. CEO Tony Hayward's company can be found five times in the poem, i.e. [a]BP, [e]BP, [i]BP, [o]BP and [u]BP. When these are connected alphabetically by a continuous line, a figure will appear indicating the number of months the Deepwater Horizon gusher has been polluting the surrounding areas as of July 2010. |
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JULY
by Hilaire Belloc
The Kings come riding back from the Crusade,
The purple Kings and all their mounted men;
They fill the street with clamorous cavalcade;
The Kings have broken down the Saracen.
Singing a great song of the eastern wars,
In crimson ships across the sea they came,
With crimson sails and diamonded dark oars,
That made the Mediterranean flash with flame.
And reading how, in that far month, the ranks
Formed on the edge of the desert, armoured all,
I wish to God that I had been with them
When the first Norman leapt upon the wall,
And Godfrey led the foremost of the Franks,
And young Lord Raymond stormed Jerusalem.
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JULY
A crab perishes in the hell-like murky slick
Offending London as the controversy rages.
What the men read and fathom makes them sick
Hundredfold on television, in the web pages.
Tarring mammal fur, fins, feathers and wings
The waters turn lethal in grimy Louisiana.
The glib person won't narrate those mad things
As the dark tides reach the coast of Florida...
Immolating the endangered school and flock.
Accommodating the horrid CEO's job pressure,
Drown the hardheaded fool, smear the wayward.
Let me gag the ill-mannered and the immature.
With no effort to tame the shame and the shock,
Let's drub president Anthony Hayward!
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