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Rated: 13+ · Poetry · Environment · #867527
My Freeman “Silent Running” Lowell prose/poem piece. Take good care of the forest,Dewey.
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


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