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Donall Dempsey
Poems
Jan 2019
FOR GREED ALL NATURE IS TOO LITTLE
"...FOR GREED ALL NATURE IS TOO LITTLE..."
first the city
ate an adjacent town then
put out a suburb
like a great paw
belched
a factory
devoured a well known
beauty spot
that was soon
forgotten as such
ate a field and
ate another field
the city's hunger
fed by greed
sent out pylons
striding across countryside
like giant
alien beings
vomiting asphalt
so that green was as if
it had
never been
its scenic magnificence
now only available
in an out of print
1930's guide book
even its memory
dying now with old Joe Hart
who managed to make it
past the hundred mark
the town he was born in
no longer to be seen
except in sepia
or Kodachrome
a picture postcard
(3 for 2)
in the bright new
museum.
*
The title is supplied by one Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65) that well known and renowned Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist.
Written by
Donall Dempsey
Guildford
(Guildford)
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