[SustainableTompkins] The Eleventh Hour

[Molly Brewton]

Thanks, Eric!  That's really beautiful and poignant.

Molly

At 09:04 AM 2/8/2008, you wrote:
>I wrote a poem that I'd like to share with this list. I hope it's an 
>appropriate "topic".
>Take care,
>Eric
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>The Eleventh Hour
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>It is the eleventh hour
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>so hang up your cell phone.
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>LOL one last time
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>and then unplug yer internets.
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>park your car,
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>and turn off the house lights.
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>Move your washing machine
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>outside next to the play set,
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>the kids will have fun climbing..
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>Oops, the clock just ticked
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>again.
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>It is 11:01
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>and there are 42 bazillion people
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>and no oil
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>and the clean water
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>is going going
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>but not..
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>Oops, the clock ticked again.
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>Were you watching?
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>Did you see it coming?
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>What happened on Heroes this week?
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>It is time to put up your clothes line.
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>Hoe a row
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>and get your hands dirty.
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>Walk to your neighbor's house
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>and trade some jam
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>for those heirloom seeds
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>that you will surely need.
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>There is ancient magic
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>in your Grandma's eyes,
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>so sit at her feet
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>and listen.
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>It will all come back to you.
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>It had better.
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>For it is the eleventh hour
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>and the sand has run down.
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>The time of softness and ease
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>is passing,
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>the long long credit line
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>is due.
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>And the only thing to save us
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>is not some techno fix
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>but a shift in perception
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>from me
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>to we.
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>We are not separate
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>or above,
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>we are part
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>of the Web of Life.
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>So start to remember
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>now,
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>before
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>midnight
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>comes,
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>and both hands
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>point
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>to the sky.
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>                         Eric
>Banford
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>                         December
>17, 2007
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