thenatureofmind: Minding the Darkness (Exerpt)

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Friday, May 21, 2004

Minding the Darkness (Exerpt)

By Peter Dale Scott

...the problem has always been
how do we live with evil
we can profit from it
we can preach against it
but if we write poetry
how not to misrepresent
the great conspiracy
of organized denial
we call civilization?

Posted by Ed on Friday, May 21, 2004 at 01:20 AM in Poetry, Politics | Permalink