Terence George Craddock Cities Poems

once upon a time in the wilderness
often an engineer was also a pioneer
snap bang time flash gone is wilderness
city you live in might have been wilderness
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political politispeak quack quack squawk squawk moo moo
it is cities humans not animals cows causing climate change
deforestation industrialization pollution waste technologies
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travel communication medicine religion
let us briefly examine our technological
global communication age is it a stone age?
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all war is criminally insane
all wars go domestic
all even World War 2
killed more civilians
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those of us who walk the barren wastes of the wilderness
like spies in the cold war who never came in from the cold
must walk in wilderness so you may walk in cities of light
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once countries governments owned their national waters
but now shared rivers are tapped sapped by first come users
who is dominant player in limited world water business?
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