Nice poem by Paula... And sobering it was first published in the mid-70s!!! How times haven't changed! Ted PNFPNF@lists.village.virginia.edu wrote: > 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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