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Monday, September 21, 2015

"Look It Over" by Wendell Berry

From "The Sagebrush Sea" on Nature. Watch it HERE.


I leave behind even
my walking stick. My knife
is in my pocket, but that
I have forgot. I bring
no car, no cell phone,
no computer, no camera,
no CD player, no fax, no
TV, not even a book. I go
into the woods. I sit on
a log provided at no cost.
It is the earth I’ve come to,
the earth itself, sadly
abused by the stupidity
only humans are capable of
but, as ever, itself. Free.
A bargain! Get it while it lasts.



"Look It Over" by Wendell Berry from New Collected Poems. © Counterpoint Press, 2012.

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