(x = space)

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Federation

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I pass patches

Of cultivated farmland

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I trust there’s more

Of these

From coast to coast

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Though we pay farmers

Not to grow

In the way

The OPEC caps (quite literally)

Distribution

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These and other things

Manipulate the

Market

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Have done so

For decades

If not ages

(thinking the Romans were

at least among

the first

to play with supply

and prices

and inflation)

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Sigh

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I wish we had a market

Based on need

As well as pleasure

And for profit

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Everyone needs food

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Everyone needs means

For acquisition

And so on

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Everyone must work

I’d go for that

But everyone is each one

With aptitudes

And what might be considered

Limitations

Though we should think

Uniqueness

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Well

Captain Kirk might be right

In that

There might be no money

In the twenty-third

Century

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An age for which

We have decided meeting

Human need

Is a galactic

Law

And providing means

For training

Toward discovering

And realizing

Talents

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Also dreams

Magellanic

Or quite

Homely

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Art

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Manufacturing

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Philosophy

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Blacksmithing

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All be done

Out of desire

And ability

And help

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The way we help

Or should

Our children grow

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And so

Our galaxy shall grow

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C L Couch

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