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StratMatt
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0 posted 1999-09-21 10:45 PM


Tearing through the forest
On my mighty bulldozer.
Tearing down the land.
Who cares about Mother Nature?
Busting down the bonds
Of nature's great power.
Bring it to its knees.
Bring on the acid showers.

The flowers are dying
Beauty comes unraveled
The fires are thriving.
Consuming all as they travel.

Commercialized Beauty
Going once, going twice.
Sold to the lady
with the painted face.
Cover Girl, Revlon,
what the hell is going on?
Go away, just let me be,
I'm not concerned with vanity.

The flowers are dying
Beauty comes unraveled
The fires are thriving.
Consuming all as they travel.

List of forbidden books
List of forbidden thoughts.
Burn them now.
Before someone gets caught
Reading Thoreau or Whitman,
or maybe even Emerson,
John Locke, or Thomas Paine
Oh my God! Are we insane?

The flowers are dying
Beauty comes unraveled
The fires are thriving.
Consuming all as they travel.

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"Lost time is never found again." -Ben Franklin.

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Systematic Decay
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since 1999-09-15
Posts 1301
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1 posted 1999-09-22 02:28 PM


Wow.....great poem...I hope I interpreted it right when Im thinking its about the decay of morals and the uprising of self righteousness?
Anyway I loved it

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