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The Dry Season (lyrics)
You were born on the first morning after that cold winter
you were raised in a cavern in your mother’s heart
and you sucked at her breast until nothing was left over
and we buried her in a field ‘neath the withering corn
and you cried every night for forty days unforgiving
the only rain that fell in that season of drought
the dry season has come, there are no tears
the dry season has come, there are no tears for us now
at first it was hard with no circus and ponies
no teevee ipods or internet p*rn
we struggled to survive and hold on to our dignity
’til our faith dried up along with our dreams
we’ve used up the oil, and our waters and forests
and now all these fields of plenty are gone
the dry season has come, there are no tears
the dry season has come, there are no tears for us now
imagine there’s no humans it’s easy if you try to,
imagine no children, no laughter and song,
we’ve fouled up the oceans that fed all the billions
we’ve drained all the blood that nourishes the ground
the dry season has come and no rain has fallen and
no rain may fall for a thousand more years
the dry season has come, there are no tears
the dry season has come, there are no tears for us now
and so my child i leave this all to you
©2007, Duane Poncy
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posted by Subject Minus -
While it is no surprise to those of us at EcoSurvival Village that oil shock has occured, the rapidity with which the finger-pointing social decline has already begun has caught us off guard. It proves a hypothesis which some have been promoting lately: change is going to arrive at a much faster pace than any “official” estimates from the scientific community.
While some of our readers will be inclined to see the advance of peak oil as a good thing –especially in regard to global warming– we want to provide a caution. Rapid economic breakdown is likely to cause much more death and destruction than a more gradual change will. War over resources will not benefit us.
On the other hand, cooperation to convert the economy to a more sustainable model has several positive points:
• community building and solidarity,
• preventing further damage to the earth’s ecology, which a resource war will undoubtably cause,
• avoidance of unnecessary death, and
• it will give us an opportunity to advance democracy and people power (on the other side of that coin is an increased danger of fascism),
As we step up our campaign against Malsanto on May Day, we ask you not to drive to the protest. Use your bicycles, or walk to the Germaine town square, and march with us to Malsanto headquarters in south Wilbur County.
Besides being the greatest threat to our planet’s food chain, remember that Malsanto is also one of the world’s largest producers of petroleum-based artificial fertilizers.
NO Oil Economy, NO Borders, NO Malsanto!!!
