- Wouldn’t
It Be Nice
- to clear-cut
- big timber’s
front office
- the way big
timber
- clear-cuts a
forest
- to take a crew
of environmentalists
- dressed in
suspendered denim
- flannel shirts
and hard hats
- deep down
corporate hallways
- with chainsaw
- axe and blade
- bulldoze
- a trail through
desk and departmental
- compartments
- profit margins
falling like
- old growth
redwoods
- to have law
- on our side for
a change
- preventing
protest or
- intervention
marshal badges
- soldier’s
bayonets backing US up
- as dismembered
corporate structures fall
- arrest a fact
of life for those
- who might
disagree
- with ecological
justice
- protest no
hindrance
- as humanity
clears a space
- for trees.
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- —Keith Dodson
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- 2
cups whole wheat flour
- 1
egg
- 1
tsp. cumin
- 1
grizzly bear terrorist*
- salt
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- mix
flour, egg, cumin. slowly beat in bear terrorist. pound into patties.
boil in oil or rake over coals. add salt liberally to wounds.
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- *researcher
involved in aversive conditioning of bears, such as rubber bullets or
red pepper sprays
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- —from
the kitchen of Eric Holle
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