My Freeman “Silent Running” Lowell prose/poem piece. Take good care of the forest,Dewey.
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And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. So man, being vainglorious, embraced these assertions and began to breed and beget in earnest. Man was such a fructiferous fornicator and successful subduer; he soon filled and defiled mother earth like no being before him. He formed great societies and defecated in massive quantities, fowling the pristine rivers and seas till they flowed in fecal brown. His driving industry rendered odious byproducts that had to be dumped, buried or burned. Incinerators belched black clouds around the clock, hazed the earth in yellow and gray, and burned a gaping hole in the sky. The thundering rains returned the airborne contaminates to earth, extinguishing entire species. Toxins fouled the foliage, fish, fowl, fauna, and finally man himself. Cellular mutations produced persistent afflictions like cancer and AIDS. Man built giant mechanical birds and metal fish to patrol and hurl projectiles of destruction at those deemed unfit to live in such green abundance. Despite all of these obstacles, man remained a most prolific procreator, his numbers expanding exponentially. And so it came to be that in the early days of man’s third millennium AD, he stood precariously balanced on the brink, tottering between possible enlightenment and probable destruction of the eco-system on which he relied … Which will he choose? Stay tuned |