Is this for real? Neat--good for Radman for posting it. Think I'll share with
you a poem (updated version of one published in the mid-70s), for the
similarity of tone.
Paula
Ecology 2001
Round and round the world we go,
stocking up the status quo;
riggin' elections old and new,
when'll we get round to you?
H-bombs rusting in deep bays
keep old troubles far away,
down in that southern darkling world
where hungry voices kept unheard
silently cry of global loss--
Hey! it's W-T-O says who's your boss.
ECOLOGY is at the core:
World has less and we want more.
Tell you what you're gonna do,
you move when we tell you, bro' -
politics is not your line
(Stop tellin' us your life's not fine!)
Your sufferings come from deep within,
'tain't our System's done you in!
'sides, there's nothing you can do;
It's we Big Folks will do for you.
ECOLOGY must be policed;
we get ours and you get fleeced.
Then...if our military might
should lead us to that final fight,
treaties falling before the Right,
Earthlife lit by latter light,
(Cheney a-kneel by a burnin' bush
in the silent waste of Armegeddon's hush,)
knelling democracy's way of life
worth it (for us) though it costs your life--
yet our ECOLOGY's saved the Earth--
No more death, if no more birth.
Copyright c 2001 Paula Friedman
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