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What Have You Done?

2/18/2018

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PEGI EYERS   
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"Gardens Manufactured" by Cheryl Molnar
Already millions of acres of farmland surrounding the Greater Toronto area have succumbed to development in recent years, in Ontario's (so-called) protected Greenbelt zone.  For those who can afford it, the demand is desperate for traditional detached family homes and townhouses.  The building boom continues to explode as the population of Toronto is projected to hit 13.5 million by 2041.  As the last great resource colony on the planet, Canada remains open to millions of immigrants from all over the world, and once an ecosystem is razed it is gone forever. 
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What Have You Done? 
Building Up, Going Down



First
The farmhouses
start to look abandoned
boarded up
rundown grey ~
 
Then, the fields go fallow
farmers sold out, dead and gone
 
Then -
the signs go up
            “For Sale”
            “Project By”
            “Chief Engineer”
 
Oligarchy buys in
planes in a bleached sky
terminus at Pearson
 
Next -
the land is denuded
creatures in the forest
annihilated
 
Cracked branch
trunks stacked high
sawdust flows
 
Earth’s Pain / Earth’s Sorrow
 
ECOCIDE
Broken bones of the land
machines crawling 24 / 7      
 
          The great trees
          life-long sentinels
          my dear friends
          I SEE YOU
         (Good-bye)
 
         Destroyed in broad daylight
         hide this from my vision
         or I too must surely die
 
Next -  
the rock buckets arrive
giant earth movers
 
Believe it or not
settler’s fields are a cut above
these great mounds
artificial hillocks
geo-engineering
 
Then -
black tarps
snaking around
building to code
partitioning the living
 
Yet we know
their days are numbered
whatever is left
of Earth Community -
colonized, maintained & controlled
 
Now -
the land raped and stripped
soil exposed,
diversity gone forever
waiting for the final blow
a year or two may pass

Then -
the grid arrives
construction requires
fencing bricks streets
wires hardware tunnels
 
Hard hats hard hearts
the gated community
 
Wut -
planting shrubs
where once were forests
homes clogged side-by-side
 
Or a high-rise crane
mega-build
digging cavities
deep in the Mother
 
Boxes in the sky!
 
Here comes the insanity
         the allergies
         the depression
         screams in the night
         calls to the shrink
         erectile dysfunction
 
The elevator that stops at extinct
 
Bringing home more crap
looks great in the store
but not in the condo
fantasies stacked high
enough rubble to fill Lake Ontario
 
A hell’s brew of
metal, glass, ceramic, glue
plastics made in China
 
What have you done, Toronto?
you set it in motion
 
NATURE IS LIFE
you chopped that down
 
NATURE IS LAW
here come the fires, the floods and the hurricanes
 
NATURE IS LOVE
you impaled your own soul
 
Building up, going down
as above so below
 
Earth’s Sorrow / Earth’s Joy

 




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Pegi Eyers is the author of  Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community, an award-winning book that explores strategies for uncolonization, social justice, ethnocultural identity, building land-emergent community & resilience in times of massive change.
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1 Comment
Rita Gonzales
2/18/2018 06:35:34 pm

this breaks my heart. to see the best land in canada fall to city development.

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