LOCAL BIRD WATCH REPORT

“PEOPLE INSIST UPON BEING GODS…”

OUR POETRY CORNER

LOCAL BIRD REPORT

In our state a bird watch report

Has made a familiar retort…

As we change the land

Some species expand

While others leave without support.

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The land changes naturally

So we were taught Biology…

Succession brought change

To a home on the range

Even if that home was man free.

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Yet people insist upon god

(Themselves) unnaturally odd…

To keep what must go

For an eon or so,

With logic that’s usually flawed.

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Remember the purple loosestrife

Or predators snuffed out for life…

The earth has done worse,

Do we think Man’s “curse”

Is really the most fatal knife?

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Mudslides block streams just like us

And nature doesn’t make any fuss….

But we hear frantic pleas

On the land and the seas

About a life form that’s a must.

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In ge’logical time, we’re a “blip”

But we still think our presence will…

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