{"id":9402,"date":"2010-12-16T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T21:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=9402"},"modified":"2010-12-16T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T21:09:08","slug":"confused-voices-confused-messages-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/confused-voices-confused-messages-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Confused Voices, Confused Messages: a Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9406\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/files\/2010\/11\/3077535542_c4ef00c773.jpg\" alt=\"3077535542_c4ef00c773\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/3077535542_c4ef00c773.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/3077535542_c4ef00c773-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>confused voices confused messages<br \/>\nsifting through noise to find a scrap of truth<br \/>\nbut it&#8217;s burned buried stepped on distorted<br \/>\nscraps of trees gray skies murky water<br \/>\nerosion<br \/>\nentropy<br \/>\ngarbage heaps of it<br \/>\nbroken and depleted<br \/>\nthe damage is done<br \/>\nfat waists glazed eyes<br \/>\nugly and cultureless<br \/>\nsick and boring<br \/>\nwasting the world away to waste our own lives<br \/>\ntv drugs fast food<br \/>\nreality tv the perfect oxymoron<br \/>\nfaster and faster all the time<br \/>\ngoing nowhere and nowhere all the same<br \/>\ni want the real stuff<br \/>\nnew world new culture<br \/>\neat a carrot<br \/>\nno, grow a carrot and then talk<br \/>\nleave the city behind leave your things behind<br \/>\nburdens junk them what is left<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t rewind<br \/>\ngo forward stay forward<br \/>\nwhere does this road turn<br \/>\ntwist<br \/>\nget bumpy or smooth<br \/>\nor veer off a cliff and down a soft hill into a big open field<br \/>\nwet with dew wet with life<br \/>\ntrees and birds and deer and butterflies and music<br \/>\nthis is the end and the beginning<br \/>\nif we&#8217;re lucky<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image credit:<\/strong> flickr via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/coxy\/\">coxy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>confused voices confused messages sifting through noise to find a scrap of truth but it&#8217;s burned buried stepped on distorted scraps of trees gray skies murky water erosion entropy garbage&nbsp;[ &hellip; 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