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because economies can no longer trump

ecologies for they are the front and back

doors of the same precarious house

because we are always at beginnings

when at our ends and have to be thoughtful

of what comes after our getting there too

because the birds smoking cigarettes on

the wires outside our windows also need

something like healthcare and revolution

because whatever we carry we can and

must be mindful of the ground we cover

like great hollow forms in our passage

because governments and debts and

the privilege of the few will not stop

and listen to us somewhere on the road

because the slippages are many and

pipes burst and tankers tank and the

seepage is without profit for any animal

because we are animals and other

animals remind us of limits and we aspire

never to leave the shards of glass behind us

because the broken is a property of the

made and markets are vague consequences

without promises the next stop in our sequence