Fleeing the Savagery
Where could we go to build our oasis?
How do we slip from the grip
Of the savagery girdling the globe
From Japan to Korea, to China
And India, Russia, and Turkey,
And Poland, the UK and Canada,
Here, the hardscrabble nations
Below the equator? Why doesn't
Anyone want to be pleasant these
Days? Why don't they shrug and say,
"Live and let live?" Instead, they
Attack with their words and their armies.
I can't offhand think of one place
Where they don't, but I'm holding out
Hope that we'll find someone,
Somewhere who says, "Build your
Oasis here."
Poetry by Lawrence Beck

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Written on 2023-01-11 at 19:45




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