LIKE $HELL$?

	under water among sea laver
	fiddler crabs & trumpet shells
	feasting on diatoms
	plankton & kelp
	this body expanded
	& became encased
	with interiors of delicate peach
	& lips like watercolors
	by Georgia O'Keeffe

	One day a fisherman bagged me
	then slit me with a knife
	after which
	my casing was packaged
	shipped & $old
	as a trinket
	for people
	bored to death
	by their hollow, shell-like live$

	sea shells $ell

	why worry if
	profit for $ome
	$uffering compel$?
	
	must compassion whisper
	when MONEY YELLS?

Andrei:  Isn't it naive to expect 'compassion' in zhe business world?

Soo:     In the short term yes, butto maybe not in the long term. Many things change 
         when we take a long-term view. Time is a great homo . . . homogunnu . . . homogenizer!

Ellesha: I wish more people understood how the threads of all lives are interwoven.

Jules:   . . . euh . . . Who does the weaving?

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from _Let the waters be my witness: Messages about our watery world_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: A poem about how life is often treated as it were a commercial product from the perspective of a crustacean.
KEYWORDS: shell collecting, environmental poetry, marketing life, predatory capitalism

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 1994 in Shizuoka, Japan / Finished: 2016 in Tokyo, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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DEUTSCH:  http://www.tnewfields.info/de/geliebtes.htm
ESPAÑOL:  http://www.tnewfields.info/es/conch.htm
FRANÇAIS: http://www.tnewfields.info/fr/conque.htm
NIHONGO:  http://www.tnewfields.info/jp/hora.htm