Here Runneth The DAPL, With Apologies To Burma Shave -- June 25, 2021

 

For those old enough to remember the old Burma Shave signs, these could be placed along the North Dakota portion of US-83:

The DAPL suit

Is at an end

How much did

Your lawyers spend?

Here runneth the DAPL

 

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Spent millions on

the DAPL suit

Judge dismissed it

What a hoot

Here runneth the DAPL

 

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Jane Fonda's plane

on jet gas still

You lost DAPL

Here's the bill

Here runneth the DAPL

 

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Oofta. DAPL

was all the rage

until the lawyers

were put in cage

Here runneth the DAPL

 

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And all the tribes 

thought it sludge
but others thinking
like the judge

Here runneth the DAPL

 

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Some said it was
the big black snake
but we all knew
the news was fake

Here runneth the DAPL

 

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Misguided youths
see big bad oil

never thought Boasberg

would be their foil

Here runneth the DAPL

 

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Ninety feet deep
And out of sight
but some enjoy
rail oil blight

Here runneth the DAPL

 

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The ruling is made,
where are the pickets?
for all we hear
are NoDak crickets.

Here runneth the DAPL

 

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Let's praise the Corps
and thank the court
who would have thought
tribes come up short?

Here runneth the DAPL

 

If, instead, you like haiku:

The slithering snake
Scares NoDak tribes, leads to suits
But the judge presides.

Haiku: a short poem left by a Japanese gentleman on the table before he leaves the woman with whom he spent the night. Short love poems with a nod toward nature. Seventeen syllables long, 5 - 7 - 5, and do not rhyme.

Prairie far and wide
Beneath the soil, long and sleek
Runs a pipeline deep.

We'll work on a Shakespearean sonnet later.