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“The USA slowly lost it’s mandate
in the middle and later twentieth century
it never gave the mountains and rivers,
trees and animals,
a vote.
all the people turned away from it
myths die; even continents are impermanent…”
Gary Snyder from his poem Tomorrow’s Song
“How can the head-heavy power-hungry politic scientist
Government two-world Capitalist-Imperialist
Third-World Communist paper-shuffling male
non-farmer jet-set bureaucrats
Speak for the green of the leaf?
Speak for the soil?”
Gary Snyder from poem Mother Earth: Her Whales
I noticed that semi-truck drivers now use the Wal-Mart parking lots as rest stops, parking their trucks in the netherworlds of the lot to sleep. I also noticed an odd phenomenon. There seem to be an extremely high number of dead/roadkill animals within close proximity to the entrances and exits of Wal-Mart. Not just your usual deer, raccoon and possum, although I witnessed many of these; but an unusually high number of dogs and cats, (feral or dumped) some chickens and a coyote.
“Wild Geese hatched out in Siberia
head South over basins of the Chiang, The Ho,
what we call China
On flyways they have used a million years.
Ah China, where are the tigers, the wild boars, the monkeys,
like snows of yesteryear
Gone in a mist, a flash, and the dry hard ground
Is parking space for fifty thousand trucks.”
Gary Snyder from Mother Earth: Her Whales
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