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Ecology for Economy
Dispense with Das Kapital
For what we’re about to receive,
When the ozone bursts a valve!
Oh blest are the meek
Who shall inherit this Earth,
Seas of vast pollutants,
Gaseous, moribund, air.
Killing off the planet,
With every stock we share.
Relativity for absolutes!
Humanity ‘aint square
We, all, a tiny circle,
Of the immeasurable, elsewhere.

© Robin Marchesi 2012

Light pale face of day
Yet moon shadows still stalk,
As Ghosts, walking silver beams in memory.
Hang silent now, you being of a moment.
To listen, ‘tis just respect to hear,
The voice of walls,
Or soft patter of foot/handprints,
Printed long before the print of their times,
Touched your own.
Be still now; ‘tis just respect to perceive,
How one molecule of existence,
Can [...]

A silence
Not outside
But inside
Stillness

Like a stone
Over which
Water falls

I remain
Beneath the river
Furnishing my depths
Before silently

I dissipate
And thrown outside
Become mercurial,
Like a moon…