Petroleum men

[addy]

This reminds me a bit of Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees", but the metaphor there is personally reflective whereas this speaks about the broad machinery of the world. Less about human pain and more about humanity in general.

Petroleum-weavers;
Petroleum-feeders.
Oxygen-sleepers;
Petroleum-keepers.

Petroleum plastic;
Petroleum-sound-speakers.
Petroleum-kitchens;
Petroleum-food-cleavers. I'm perhaps being too literal here, but I thought the inclusion of this stanza would have been more logical if this was the poem's opening, then leading up to "petroleum weavers// ... etc". But it isn't, so i find this stanza unnecessary: you could skip this part and jump right to S3 without missing much of your message as already established. That's my take, anyway

In this petroleum-running
Heart, you will find
The love and adoration of "love and adoration" don't contrast enough for me in this context, so it seems somehow redundant
Fellow petroleum-man.

Petroleum-eaters;
Petroleum-bleeders.
Oxygen-thinkers;
Petroleum-breathers. I love this part. ("oxygen thinkers // petroleum breathers"). In spirit and in dreams, people have so much potential, but we tend to fall short of our aspirations

In this petroleum-running
Nation, you will find
The silent dependence of
The petroleum-lifestyle. Maybe this needs an image? This declaration is somehow not as powerful as it could be. "silent dependence" is descriptive, but not evocative enough (words like "bondage" are evocative, for example).

Petroleum bird-guts;
Petroleum-waters.
Petroleum-ice-caps;
Petroleum-whalers.

Petroleum-poor? -
Petroleum-speakers. speakers? Are these people?
Petroleum-war;
Petroleum-weepers.

Thanks for the read