Congratulations on the excellent and important piece on Sable Oil and drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel . The following poem comments on drilling in this environmentally sensitive area.
DRILL, BABY, DRILL
September 15, 1961-
New bride and I, a rented one-bedroom apartment
a block from Sunset Boulevard in Pacific Palisades.
She’s a teacher at Marquez Knolls elementary.
Two months later, the school and we evacuated —
smoke pouring from the Bel Aire fire above UCLA —
484 homes gone, but sparing the Palisades.
DRILL, BABY, DRILL
October 20, 1968-
Moved back to Pacific Palisades to house-sit —
three-story house on Castellammare Drive,
overlooked Getty Villa and offshore oil platforms.
Another evacuation, this time us and two kids.
Malibu fire threatened the beach area —
A false alarm — it missed Pacific Palisades.