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Monday, July 2, 2012

The Dead Man's Hand

Would you touch the bone of a gone and dead soul?
No? Than tell me why.
As you look through the earth you can see that even through new technology and buildings we are all falling apart.
The dirt you use for soil, when planting your store bought starters
it is pieces from other living things, decomposed,
most of them forgotten.
The water you sip quietly, has been drunk more than a thousand times before by creatures now nonexistent.
Those new shoes you're so proud of, they were the skin of the mighty buffalo.
The steak you ate for dinner used to be a living cow.
The cow should have been free and happy, but for the extra
selfish souls this cow had to live confined and sad.
So now tell me again.
Why won't you hold a dead mans hand?

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