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Everything Was Alive and Dying, a Janet Kuypers poem

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2008-04-21 16:53:12

Description: Janet Kuypers reads the 1995 poem Everything Was Alive and Dying in a forest preserve, talking about how humans have managed to destroy nature now that we have expanded our civilization. This (More) Janet Kuypers reads the 1995 poem Everything Was Alive and Dying in a forest preserve, talking about how humans have managed to destroy nature now that we have expanded our civilization. This recording was made 05/15/07. For more information on this writing and other writings from Janet Kuypers, go to http://www.janetkuypers.com for more information and details. The Full (long) poem is below: Everything Was Alive and Dying I I had a dream the other night I walked out of the city to a forest and there were neatly paved bicycle paths and trash cans every fifty feet and trash every ten and then a raccoon came right up to me she had a few little baby raccoons following her, it was so cute, I wish I had my camera and she spoke to me, she said, thank you thank you for not buying furs, I know you humans are pretty smart, you have to be able to figure out a way to keep yourselves warm without killing me and I said, you know they don't do it for warmth, they do it for fashion, they do it for power. And she said I know. But thank you anyway. II Then I walked a little further and there was a stray cat she still had her little neon collar on with a little bell and she walked a few feet, stretched her front paws, oh, she looked so darling and then she walked right up to me and she said thank you and I said for what? And she just looked at me for a moment, her little ears were standing straight up, and then she said, you know, in some countries I'm considered a delicacy. And I said how do you know of these things? And she said when somebody eats one of you word gets around and then she looked up at me again and said, and in some countries the cow is sacred. Wouldn't they love to see how you humans prepare them for slaughter, how you hang them upside-down and slit their throats so their still beating hearts will drain out all the blood for you and she said isn't it funny how arbitrary your decision to eat meat is? and I said, don't put me in that category, I don't eat meat and she said I know III And I walked deeper in to the forest managed to get away from the picnic tables and the outhouses that lined the forest edges the roaring cars gave way to the rustling of tree branches crackling of fallen leaves under my step when the wind tunneled through the wind whistled and sang as it flew past the bark and leaves I walked listened to the crack of dead branches under my feet and I felt a branch against my shoulder I looked up and I could hear the trees speak to me, and they said thank you for letting the endangered animals live here amongst us we do think they're so pretty and it would be a shame to see them go and thank you for recycling paper because you're saving us for just a little while longer we've been on this planet for so long embedded in the earth we do have souls, you know you can hear it in our songs we cling with our roots we don't want to let go and I said, but I don't do much, I don't do enough and they said we know but we'll take what we can get IV and I woke up in a sweat V so tell me, Bob Dole so tell me, Newt Gingrich so tell me, Pat Bucannan so tell me, Jesse Helms if you woke up from that dream would you be in a sweat, too? VI Do you even know why we should save the rain forest? Oh preserve the delicate balance, just tear the whole forest down, what difference does it make? Put in some orange groves so our concentrate orange juice can be a little cheaper did you know that medical researchers have a very, very hard time trying to come up with synthetic cures for diseases on their own? It helps them out a little if they can first find the substance in nature. A tree that appears in the rain forest may be the only one of its species. Or one like it may be two miles away, instead of right next to it. I wonder how many cures we've destroyed to plant more orange groves. Serves us right. VII You know my motives aren't selfless I know that these things are worthwhile in my life I'd like to find a cure to these diseases before I die of them and I'm not just a vegetarian because I think it's wrong to kill an animal unless I have to I also know the excess protein pulls the calcium away from my bones and gives me osteoporosis and the excess fat gives me heart attacks and I also know that we could be feeding ten times more people with the same resources used for meat production You know, I know you're looking at me and calling me an extremist but I'm sitting here, looking around me looking at the destruction caused by family values and thinking the right, moral, non-violent decisions are also those extreme ones VIII everything is linked here we destroy our animals so we can be wasteful and violent we destroy our plants we destroy our earth we're even destroying our air we wreak havoc on the soil, on the atmosphere we dump our wastes into our lakes we pump aerosol cans and exhaust pipes and you tell me I'm extreme and these animals and forests keep calling out to me the oceans, the wind and I'm beginning to think that we just keep doing it because we don't know how to stop and deep inside we feel the pain of all that we've killed and we try to control it by popping a chemical-filled pain-killer we live through the guilt by taking caffeine, nicotine, morphine and we keep ourselves thin with saccharin and we keep ourselves sane with our alcohol poisoning and when that's not enough maybe a line of coke maybe shoot ourselves in the head in front of the mirror in the master bedroom or maybe just take some pills walk into the garage, turn on the car and just fall asleep in the wild you have no power over anyone else now that we're civilized we create our own wild maybe when we have all this power the only choice we have is to destroy ourselves and so we do (Less)

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