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How it happened -- three poems of origins

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How do trees not go anywhere

Trees do not have to go anywhere.
They have known that from the beginning.
Obviously their toes became roots.
That's how they did it.

Human evolution - How we did it

Humans used to fight over the water hole.
They would chase each other away using bones.
A black monolith showed up that sent a signal into their brains.
The signal gave them tinnitus.
The tinnitus damaged their ear drums.
They had to live in caves so they invented fire to be able to see each other.
Obviously they had to learn to talk.
They told stories to pass the time and made up a lot of sh*t.
Soon they forgot what was real and what was bullshit.
That's how we did it.

How America does America

America has never been attacked on its own soil by a foreign power.
That allowed it to get busy attacking itself.
Native Americans remember when America itself
Was once a foreign power attacking Turtle Island.
After it was done converting the spirit of the Great Turtle into real estate
It started attacking it's own spirit of hope for all kinds of oppressed people
Using them to make it ever more powerful and rich
So it could begin bending the world to its will.
The Pentagon is where it makes all its plans to continue
Recreating itself in its own image.
That is how America does it.


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Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and (more...)
 

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