[SustainableTompkins] The Eleventh Hour

[Katie Quinn-Jacobs]

Thanks for sharing your poem, Eric.  Do you ever wonder how we'd make it 
through this transition without poetry?

-- Katie Q-J


Molly Brewton wrote:
> 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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