{"id":4193,"date":"2023-07-14T11:48:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2023-07-14T11:50:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:50:39","slug":"poem-mine-mine-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/14\/poem-mine-mine-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Mine, Mine, Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dehumanizing extractive industries are destroying our environment, second only to climate change. Mining is a huge part of extractive industries’ destruction. And, ironically, the technologies needed for a green economy require immense quantities of minerals that drive the “green, green, green” economy. I wrote this poem a bout mining after viewing a Democracy NOW segment on cobalt mining in the Congo<\/a>. In one word: brutal. Here is the poem:<\/p>\n

Mine, Mine, Mine<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Mother Earth weeps
\nBleeding minerals
\nFor her children
\nGermanium, gallium, beryllium, lithium, tellurium
\nAnd other -iums
\nTag teaming with -isms of all sorts
\nPiling on cobalt, manganese, arsenic and antimony
\nAnd lustly met
\nWith platinum, aluminum, lanthanum, tantalum
\nAnd a host of -ums, -ums, and more -ums
\nBuy corporate fat cats
\nWith their toxic waists
\nAnd awe a bout mine, mine, mine
\nAnd winning the precious price
\nFore cherished electronics
\nAn idol public helled hostage
\nBuy a green, green, green economy
\nAnd down with dumb
\nIn the face of corporate prophets
\nMean wile
\nAs Mother Earth bleeds and weeps
\nFore the porous of the poor
\nThey get their fare share
\nOf the F-fluent
\nOf multinational syndicates
\nShareholders and slaveholders
\nAs black as Inc.
\nA dubious bettor weigh
\nWhat more
\nCould we passably want
\nIn making up
\nWon\u2019s mine
\nRather sow
\nAnother or
\nOf inestimable worth
\nTruly living
\nOn a plan it
\nThat is not scarred
\nIn its own
\nHome
\nRealizing
\nWon for all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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