Sustainability

“What does it mean?” “Not a damn thing. Don’t talk to me about sustainability in a nation gone from natural wilderness to wilderness of our own making in less than two hundred years. Talk to be about money and profit and comfort if you want to talk the truth.” “Don’t you believe it’s important to protect our environment?” “Raise the price and everyone becomes a conservationist. Punish those who poison others and everyone is environmentally aware.” “We need to be so careful.” “We need to be so bold and brave and aggressive. We need to be adventuresome and willing to dismantle what doesn’t work for parts to make it work for others, not something new to please ourselves.” “Sustainability is the answer.” “Sustainability is the status quo. If you want to talk sustainability, talk kids who finish high school, go to college and raise a family. Talk couples married fifty […]

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Slain In The Spirit

“What are they building here?” “A police station.” “Wasn’t there a church here before?” “Yes. They tore it down. The church died. They boarded the windows, surrounded it with chain link topped by barbed wire and sold to the city.” “Says something doesn’t it.” “Like what?” “They traded spirit for law and faith for enforcement.” “I don’t know. I never went to that church.” ♠

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Double Date

“You see that statue of a woman way up there on top of the capitol building?” “Way too high for me to see. Way too high. “They gonna put another statue at the capitol. This one down real low for you and me.” “What they gonna call it?” “Miss Fortune.” “I know her sister, Works for the government.” “What’s her name?” “Miss Information.” ♠

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Two Big Tits

“You hear about that new bill they got before the legislature?” “Oh yeah, I heard about it. Real mother of a bill.” “They’re talking about building another capitol up there on the hill, side by side with the one they got there now. Seems one big tit ain’t enough for all the cats who want a sip.” “Maybe two gonna give us runts a chance for a taste of the milk of human kindness.” “No brother, I don’t think so. More likely the same old trickle down economics.” ♠

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Cherubim

When I attended seminary, No, really I did, we learned the word above meant The Burning Ones, angels and flaming spirits sent by God, emissaries of divine presence and truth. There’s this girl, No, really there is, who runs by the house every morning, her face etched with pain and determination. Then within the hour she walks the other way, probably to work, without the pain, but just as much determination, smoking a cigarette. No, really she does. Either way she burns and I’m afraid to speak to her, No, really I am. ♥

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Road Demons

Haven’t ridden my motorcycle in a while. December in Wisconsin, right, but this global warming thing is way out of line and if they say Bad and I say Ride, then maybe while I do they’ll get this whole break figured out. Meanwhile you go your way and I’ll go mine and get where I’m going, like they say, before ye. ♥

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