- A second hand light embezzled from the sun
- a dim attempt to best nature. An inauthentic
- magnificence which fades like a drug induced dream.
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- Grotesque necklaces of halogen and neon chocking
the world,
- powered by sacred mountains reduced to poisoned
dust and
- toxic soot smears across the holy desert skies.
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- An anomalous infestation on the natural order of
things.
- An excrescence spawned by the mad coupling of a
- phantom called reason with a nightmare named
progress
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- Sid Bridges
- "Earth First Journal" March-April 2001
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- In the right hand lane
- Heading South on Route 64
- Saw a late model blue Mitsubishi
- truck swerve to
- shoulder around what thought
- was wheel
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- I also swerved but saw it
- was large tortoise
- trying to get across
- 6 lanes of interstate.
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- I saw the neck stretch out
- walking then stopping
- and going in shell
- as my truck approached
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- My prayers, my fears, my uncertainties,
- and my admiration
- symbol of longevity & this land
- going headlong towards danger
- technology rampant death, destruction
- will we make it.
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- Turtle, Alexandria, VA 28/5/97
- "Earth First Journal" February-March 2001
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