Environmentally Disturbed

I say to them, “How can you buy all this garbage?”

They say, “Please, just leave us alone”

I say, “But you don’t need any of this crap

You know ecology begins at home”

 

They say, “Okay okay already

I guess you’re probably right

But I still want it—so I’m gonna get it

—Now stop your goddamned preaching, Dwight”

 

I say, “That’s why it’s all breaking down

Cause no one makes any personal sacrifice”

She says, "I’ll buy whatever I want

The only issue is ‘Can I Pay the Price?’"

He says, “And that’s it—no ifs, ands, or buts

And personally, Dwight, I do believe you’ve gone completely nuts”

 

Nuts?  Me?  You’re the third person who’s said that today

So you really think I’m MAD?

But I just got my diagnosis, right here in front of me

And it’s really not all that bad

 

It says I am agitated and perturbed

But that I am not mad at all

I’m just—very environmentally disturbed.

 

Dwight Worker

"Earth First ! Campfire Poems"

- edited by Dennis Fritzinger, Karen Coulter, and Dwight Metzger. feral press, Tuscon, Arizona 1998.