{"id":5580,"date":"2024-05-06T13:16:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T17:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=5580"},"modified":"2024-05-06T13:16:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T17:16:46","slug":"poem-on-sand-they-billed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/06\/poem-on-sand-they-billed\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: On Sand They Billed"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Building on a foundation of sand” is an ancient cautionary metaphor that our modern, so-called civilization often seems to run over roughshod. Literally jumping from one unsustainable practice to the next unsustainable practice often seems like a fair characterization of modernity and the ultimately brutal logic of capitalism. This poem resembles the apocryphal saying that the capitalist will sell the rope for their own hanging…<\/p>\n

On Sand They Billed<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On sand
\nThey billed
\nTheir civilization
\nOnly then realizing
\nThe price of sand
\nSo moving
\nTheir civilization
\nTo less substantial grounds
\nSand in merchant eyes
\nAnchoring their future
\nAs purveyors
\nSouled out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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