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Listen to this prospect

this view of sounds

harbours bays and bends

that drift spendthrift through

our consumptive debts

and echoing projects to reclaim

social wealths locked in

private speech by public men

lying about their leisure and

the sound of their own voices

as the big banking thermostat

is set to up the oil flow

for the overheated planet to

what—spin a little faster?

make us all terrified of the earth

that calm and patient growth

of sweet light corruption

bent to our engineered ends

fluvial and Devonian we will

distill exquisite winds of

alternative energies and

lessened desires for divine

materials accepting leavings

from the gleanable commons

spread as this compost about

the ecos we house and hold