Ozone

I'm the kind of guy who likes feelin' high
Feelin' high and dry, and I really like to fly
I'm your kinda guy, girl I'm not too shy
And I want you to fly, so I think you oughta try
Ozone, ozone, ozone, ozone
I'm your kinda guy and I'm not too shy
Feelin' high and dry, and I want you to be mine
So I think it's time, girl, to start feeling fine
Feeling good all the time, so I think you oughta try
Ozone, ozone, ozone, ozone
Now I'm the kinda guy who likes getting high
Getting high and dry, and I do it all the time
If you think it's a crime and you don't wanna try
Something that'll make you high, then I think I'll say goodbye
'cos I'm the kind of guy who likes getting high
Getting high and dry, and I do it all the time
Now I'm much too high, I am high and dry
And I'm feelin fine, I'm feelin good all of the time... (to fade)

song performed by Kiss
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Save Our Sky, Be Ozone-friendly!

Three atoms of Oxygen,
That will make Ozone!
Which is in the Stratosphere,
The Shield’s almost gone.

Absorbing the U-V rays,
That comes from the Sun;
Ozone is so essential,
No more is this fun.

Ozone-holes are increasing,
Stop this if you’re wise;
Blame Man for its depletion,
Skin-Cancer’s on the rise.

Hundred chemicals almost,
Can de-ionize!
Fluro-carbons and Halons,
Mostly terrorize.

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poem by John Celes
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Layer of Ozone
Is very thin, we can die
In the next few years.

haiku by Marieta Maglas
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Thin atmosphere
Extreme close range to the sun
Thin ozone layer

haiku by Marieta Maglas
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Photosynthesis

If you were to exhale oxygen
along with all the plants
by the archaic mouth of photosynthesis,
the whole earth would smell of ozone.

This happens before the rain,
when the rebel raindrops army marches
and the odd dust bounces around.

poem by Andrei Langa, translated by Dan Costinaş
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When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.

quote by Dennis Weaver
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So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

quote by Dean Stockwell
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U.v.....

everyday
the sin of omission looks like
an expanding hole of the
ozone layer

you get
ultra-violated.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.

quote by Susan Powter
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Epilogue 3

the ozone layer protects
hearts

from greed, rude and
hate

but the mind destroys
it

we're going home for
nothing

poem by Ahmad Shiddiqi
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It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!

quote by Lewis Black
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Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.

quote by Jane D. Hull
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We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.

quote by Laurel Clark
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Indifference Eating Ozone Layer

global
warming
issue

is an
abused
concept

considering
technology
to safe restore

our Ozone Layer
exists in multiple
forms all unused

remains
abused
unused

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.

quote by Herman Kahn
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Vapor Train Reflected in the Frog Pond

The old watch: their
thick eyes
puff and foreclose by the moon.The young, heads
trailed by the beginnings of necks,
shiver,
in the guarantee they shall be bodies.

In the frog pond
the vapor trail of a SAC bomber creeps,

I hear its drone, drifting, high up
in immaculate ozone.

poem by Galway Kinnell
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Visionary Instability

quintessential energy
infused soul
sudden ozone
bolt lightning strikes

activated particles
vibrating whole
directional rhythm
earthing lasers

psychic bite
air earth
fire water
heavy elements

drowning
dragging
under
currents

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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What does the new world hold?

What does the modern new world
hold for us?
Smoke and polluted air to breathe,
the ozone layer burning away
and meadows turning
into to desert and useless dust?

What does the modern new world
hold for us?
Flying gun ships, war planes
and tanks
killing people that believe differently
in far off foreign lands?

What does the modern new world
hold for us?

poem by Gert Strydom
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It Is So Warm For Early In December

It is so warm for early in December the birds are panting and scarce a puff of breeze
And the tar is boiling on the sunlit roadway in temperatures of over thirty degrees
How come it's so warm this early on in Summer? we hear the scientists talk of the ozone hole
If this be true we have influenced the weather and the temperatures not beyond our control.

Some scientists claim it's due to man's pollution that we experience the weather extremes
The water now is down to a slow trickle in the polluted rivers, creeks and streams
Three weeks ago the low lying paddocks flooded the changes a few warm weeks can bring
And the farmers they are praying for rain already although we've had big rainfalls through the Spring

Each year the Summer temperatures keep rising and the warm weather goes into late Fall
And despite the first week of heavy rains the weather bureau
claim it's been the warmest November of them all
'Twould seem the coastal towns will do well for Christmas and traffic jams on the highway to the sea
And New Year's day will find them by the ocean the working man and his wife and family.

It is so warm for early in December and Summer days have only just begun
And people already wearing their sun hats and sun screens to keep away the cruel rays of the sun
And some scientists claim that the extremes of weather is or was never beyond our control
And that modern man who creates much pollution is responsible for the big ozone hole.

poem by Francis Duggan
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When west is west

The noise of your traffic
The acid in your rain
The hole in the ozone
The murders in your malls
The politics of your doubletalk

The wars you rage outside your borders
The threats you think you have

That you inflict to violence with violence
The consumerism the commercialism
The capitalism that is always capitalism

You are the west and will always be
The west the west in haste and noise.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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