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Don't Mind Us
3,000 miles
of various soils
and elevations,
the Rocky Mountains
and Appalachians,
avoiding the floods
of the Mississippi
and yet wanting
to feel with my toes
the springs of earth
and so nestled in
at 357 feet
on the Crawford Creek
which feeds
into the Naconiche,
all south to Sam Rayburn
by way to the Attoyac
and out into the Gulf of Mexico
all from my back yard
where West Oil
would like to lay a pipeline
disrupting the wetlands
of the perennial fingers
the Queensland quest
in the land of the Caddo
in the Deep East Texas
soil in the middle
of the National Forest
behind the Pine Curtain
where nothing lives
but a few too many deer,
a herd of wild pigs,
a couple of lone coyotes,
and me.
runningturtle87
of various soils
and elevations,
the Rocky Mountains
and Appalachians,
avoiding the floods
of the Mississippi
and yet wanting
to feel with my toes
the springs of earth
and so nestled in
at 357 feet
on the Crawford Creek
which feeds
into the Naconiche,
all south to Sam Rayburn
by way to the Attoyac
and out into the Gulf of Mexico
all from my back yard
where West Oil
would like to lay a pipeline
disrupting the wetlands
of the perennial fingers
the Queensland quest
in the land of the Caddo
in the Deep East Texas
soil in the middle
of the National Forest
behind the Pine Curtain
where nothing lives
but a few too many deer,
a herd of wild pigs,
a couple of lone coyotes,
and me.
runningturtle87
Published 15th Aug 2012
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Anonymous
15th Aug 2012 12:40pm
Wow...this was terrific.
They are going to tear down the last "Audubon" style finger wetlands behind our house to put in more houses when millions of unsold houses lie around this area. We still can see deer and dead deer as they have no place left to go, squirrels, also dead and we have the worst traffic in all of our state, opossums...dead...you could survive on roadkill because this place is so overpopulated with people and cars....But they are still building until the last square inch of wild land is going to be gone. They have done this WITHOUT DOING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STUDIES, I found out. Our area has 1 overworked DEA person for 62 suburbs surrounding the big city. Nobody cares about the environment...first the animals will die...we are next
Thank you for writing this poem
Kitty
They are going to tear down the last "Audubon" style finger wetlands behind our house to put in more houses when millions of unsold houses lie around this area. We still can see deer and dead deer as they have no place left to go, squirrels, also dead and we have the worst traffic in all of our state, opossums...dead...you could survive on roadkill because this place is so overpopulated with people and cars....But they are still building until the last square inch of wild land is going to be gone. They have done this WITHOUT DOING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STUDIES, I found out. Our area has 1 overworked DEA person for 62 suburbs surrounding the big city. Nobody cares about the environment...first the animals will die...we are next
Thank you for writing this poem
Kitty
15th Aug 2012 1:10pm
15th Aug 2012 4:03pm
"Don't Mind Us"
I love it! (hate it, but love the writing) The title, the way it ties into this piece... it's perfect.
I love it! (hate it, but love the writing) The title, the way it ties into this piece... it's perfect.
15th Aug 2012 4:36pm
The powers that be are like weeds and if there is a foot hold they turn it into a strangle hold... I have no idea how this can end, but the planet is getting pretty full. They may need to kill off some folks to create more room since you can't really make new land...even subduction and techtonics just move things around....thanks for reading...ST...
