After ANWR

Of course no one in New York was excited
when they discovered oil
beneath Central Park.

The various Natives,
like the Manhatten Islanders,
the Bronxers and Harlemites
were concerned about the pigeons
and the bums

their daily migration
from the park to the dumpsters,
they – being the pigeons and the homeless -
would be disturbed by the drilling

The last of the reserves
in
Texas, the gulf of Mexico, and Alaska
had long been sucked dry

the wild horses, the manatees, and the caribou
gone

The Natives drew a line in the concrete
Central Park was sacred land

There would be no drilling there
not ever
Central Park was sacred land.

Perhaps your opinion of whether to drill for oil in ANWR will be challenged when you consider it from another angle.