Wouldn’t It Be Nice? Hearst Patties
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.
 
—Keith Dodson
 
 
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 egg
1 tsp. cumin
1 grizzly bear terrorist*
salt
 
mix flour, egg, cumin. slowly beat in bear terrorist. pound into patties. boil in oil or rake over coals. add salt liberally to wounds.
 
*researcher involved in aversive conditioning of bears, such as rubber bullets or red pepper sprays
 
—from the kitchen of Eric Holle