Author: Gary Beck
Source: https://www.polseguera.com/writers/writing-110_assault-on-nature.html


Assault on Nature


Assault on Nature: Media, Cash or Charge, War on Nature, Bridge, Two Visions

Media

Powerful light splits the night.

Cameras and crew lust the suffering

that is the entertainment of the people.

Trapped in violet despair,

the helpless victims can't escape

the consuming dance of TV.





Cash or Charge

Bayonets are seldom put on broomsticks

by housewives struggling to reach the counters

of overloaded supermarkets, crammed with

frozen, pre-cooked, dehydrated abundance

newest and bestest guaranteed

to feed your family

while the rest of the world

goes hungry.





War on Nature

Intelligence appointed us

defenders of mother nature.

Greed invented new ways

to abuse our trusteeship.





Bridge

Impassable gaps and rivers once stopped man,

until tired of being eaten, drowned, trapped,

found a log placed well enough for passage,

daringly crossed over and safely entered

the promised land of engineering.





Two Visions

I

Dawn in cities

is the quietest time,

before the daily sacrifices

of our citizens.

II

Money buys immunity

from responsibility

with comforting ingenuity.



Gary Beck

Poems from 'Assault on Nature' have appeared in: The Hiss Quarterly, Nuvein Magazine, Clark Street Review, HazMat Review, Kritya Poetry Journal, Thorny Locust, Death Metal Poetry, Strange Road, decomP, The Blue House, Miller's Pond, High Altitude Poetry, MadSwirl, Bolts of Silk, New Verse News, Poetic Curfews, Enigma, Farmhouse Journal, Words Words Words, Apt Magazine, Blue Fog Journal, Juice Magazine.

Sent on 17th July, 2008