(Copyright ©2005 by Kristofer Dale, all rights reserved.)

     See Owe Too


  with every exhalation

  we support consumer nation

  and its seemingly sacred aim

  to live up to its name

  while devouring the future

  as nature supplants nurture

  and we pretend it's necessary

  to foster this unjust quandary

  supposedly because so many wrongs

  liberally spread among the throngs

  will somehow make it right

  to sail on through the night

  of our declining aspirations

  beset with hallucinations

  of a bygone era's grandeur

  to mask the incessant pander

  that destroys our hearts and minds

  in a world that "takes all kinds"...



  we've collectively created

  yet for many, too belated

  a quickening need for veracity

  to supplant the deadly complacency

  caused by the waning oxygen

  of burning bridges now and then

  in the dwindling hope that we

  can avoid the inevitability

  of the death and destruction

  that awaits our induction

  of the colossal ignorance

  that fuels our fleeting bliss

  while dictating the demise

  of our noble enterprise

  thus forcing the conservation

  despite much consternation

  of the energy used so copiously

  in the service of social entropy...



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