Before I was a folk musician I was a geologist. An environmental geologist. Which means I saw some of the worst of the 'by-product' contamination residual to modern humanity. Someday all that will remain of us are the fossils! What will a future paleontologist find?
The Fossil
When I am a fossil, and a paleontologist
brushes the dust from my bones.
Will they ever find the intentions that I owned?
They'll find banjo strings, and plastic things
and a galvanized aluminum roof.
The telephone wire and my washer and dryer
and the mercury in my tooth.
They'll find fuel oil leached into the soil
and the dogs that are buried here too.
But will they ever find my long list of things to do?
They'll find the mortar and brick, petroleum slick
All the things that only took a day to ship.
They'll find the company fleets with the heated seats
still parked on the Vegas strip.
They'll find a valley of steel with a chemical peel
and the tar-filled river bends.
But will they ever find all the bottom lines and the quarterly dividends?
Sophisticated copper running straight to the top of a
landfill diamond mine.
A europium habit buried deep in the granite
and the signature of little boy.
Fat Man and Little Boy.
They'll find the cables for charging my electric cars
and my photovoltaic cells.
They'll find the thousands of ways we come up with today
just to save us from ourselves.
The agreement to 'progress', the treaties and promises
We signed for our own sake.
But will they ever find the footprint I didn't make?
Will they ever find the steps that we don't take?
When I am a fossil, and a paleontologist
brushes the dust from my bones.
Will they ever find the intentions that I owned?
by Benjamin Haravitch
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28 сен 2024
