Will we be drafting letters in cantonese or mandarin?
both?

who will we hold accountable
for the waters, land, animals
when our government only picks up garbage
and shovels the roads

when all legislation
the remaining shreds of accountability
are signed away

will you come to class with me
so we can continue to speak for the land
which is our body

will you learn mandarin
to have a voice, however small

even if there isn't a single spill
extracting and using that bitumen energy
is a carbon time bomb
that those scientists say
will change everything