"enviromental" poems
Between empty junction gullies of the Dogskin mountains,
the BLM has once again released their Judas horses
luring the free ranging mustangs into capture corrals.
Their crime --- thriving in a battle of survival.
I assure you the Comanche do not dance around the fire,
nor does the ghost of Cortez roll in the wildflowers of El Dorado.
Ironically this native species is now considered feral,
introduced in the very habitat which shaped its evolution,
arcanely empowered to exceed enviromental carrying capacity.
The lands of nature are so dear: rejoice their freedom!
The mountains do not judge, they merely shelter.
Let the mustang graze unfettered through winds of dawn.
Mar 21, 2012
Mar 21, 2012 at 5:56 AM UTC
Yor lips
As soft
Like a drop
Of dew
Flows
Off a leaf
During the morning haze.
So soft
Yet so chemicaled?
Your hair
The color of a wheat field
Shines so brightly
Yet so dim.
Your voice so soft and sensual
Brings me to newer heights with each day that passes
But when you come home and your voice is dry and raspy
Could this be
Because...
You building hallways are so filthy
The dust particles come from with in you?
Your skin..mmm
Your skin my dear,
So fresh and scented as the ***** water
Which flows from the ***** pipes of your building?
Your hair teases me from the scent
Of the ***** city air
And the dust particles
From the enviromental planetary
Sludge.
It entangles the sences of my nose!
Oh how sweet your purfume!
Your hands so soft
With dense lines on your nails..
Why is this so?
Could it be?
Could it be dear love?
You work too much
With your delicate dainty hands?
Or?
Is it the cheap chemicals
That must be!
Or just malnutrition?
Maybe
Maybe its just me.
Sep 24, 2014
Sep 24, 2014 at 7:58 AM UTC
Modern capitalist society, in order to culturally and structurally reproduce itself, to mantain its formative status quo, must forever be expanding, growing and innovating, increasing production and consumption as well as options and opportunities for connection -in short it must always be dynamically accelerating. This systematic tendency toward escalation changes how people are situated in the world, the ways in which human beings relate to the world. Dynamization in this sense means a fundamental transformation of our relationship to time and space, to other people, to the objects around us, and ultimately to ourselves, to our body and our mental dispositions.
This is the point at which acceleration becomes a problem. An aimless, endless compulsion toward escalation ultimately leads to problematic, even dysfunctional or pathological relationships to the world on the part of both subjects and society as a whole. This dysfunction can be observed in the three great crises of the present day: the enviromental crisis, the crisis of democracy, and the psychological crisis (as manifested, for example in ever-growing rates of burnout).
Hartmut Rosa, from Resonance A sociology of our relationship to the world
Nov 17, 2024
Nov 17, 2024 at 5:31 PM UTC