Arlene Corwin Poetry

  Global Priorities

Economic growth,
No matter what the cost -
It must collapse.
That is the way of things.
Expansion and contraction laws,
Industrial societies
Even chronological advances,
   Mixed with money yearnings, money earnings -
Well, you can imagine!

Nature doesn’t give a damn,
Reacting down to every gram…
Nothing can go on forever,
Grow forever -
It has never happened, never will.
Self-interest leads to building buidings
Without bedrock’s underpinnings.
Global Priorities 12.16.2021 Our Times, Our Culture II; Arlene Nover Corwin