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The Word for Forest
(for Ursula K. Le Guin)
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We need something that is lasting
Like air
That hasn’t been ruined,
Where a tally of the molecules is useless
Because our calculators break
In the process
A world that is a forest
As in a story I read a while ago
Where the inhabitants cannot perceive
The sense
In wrecking air
And everything life-giving
Breaking a circle they took part in
For ages,
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For what is profit if not that
A world that has trust in them
The smart ones on the planet
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C L Couch
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Photo by Sebastian Unrau on Unsplash
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clcouch123 
August 28, 2020 at 5:37 pm
Love this piece. It is almost has a sarcastic tone to it, but it conveys way more important things.
August 28, 2020 at 7:18 pm
Thank you! I’m not sure I mean to be sarcastic; but if you see it there, it’s most likely there. Le Guin’s writing is often satiric about the relationship between the natural and the mechanized worlds.
August 28, 2020 at 8:30 pm
Beautifully penned piece, each line speaks volumes 😊