04-21-2022, 07:38 PM
Gold
The yellow metal's rarer than one thinks -
for all the gold that's ever been mined,
from before the time that Egypt had a Sphinx,
to when Cortez was robbing the Aztecs blind,
till now, when native populations have rights,
would fill but three Olympic swimming pools.
O, the yawning Superpit's a sight,
and Grasberg, mountain dismantled with tools
of excavation. The grade being one in a million,
millions the tonnes the rocks
that must be crushed in the Chilean
or Peruvian skies. The shocks
from ammonium nitrate prill in the mountains,
water carts for dust suppression spraying fountains,
and black suited accountants
counting every penny of profit and loss
for their shareholder boss -
all for the love of element 79,
noble metal that never
loses its shine.
The yellow metal's rarer than one thinks -
for all the gold that's ever been mined,
from before the time that Egypt had a Sphinx,
to when Cortez was robbing the Aztecs blind,
till now, when native populations have rights,
would fill but three Olympic swimming pools.
O, the yawning Superpit's a sight,
and Grasberg, mountain dismantled with tools
of excavation. The grade being one in a million,
millions the tonnes the rocks
that must be crushed in the Chilean
or Peruvian skies. The shocks
from ammonium nitrate prill in the mountains,
water carts for dust suppression spraying fountains,
and black suited accountants
counting every penny of profit and loss
for their shareholder boss -
all for the love of element 79,
noble metal that never
loses its shine.