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Day 21 — dominion & Dominions

This is a poem/idea I’m pretty pleased with. It took a few goes to find exactly what worked best, but when I figured it out, I was extremely chuffed. It’s a visual poem which I think by using less, says a lot.

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Extractive Dominion 
Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 1:28

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B  fruitful and multiply, and r pl nish th   arth and subdu  it: and hav  dominion ov r th  fish of th  s a and ov r th  fowl of th  air and ov r  v ry living thing that mov th upon th   arth.

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B  frui ful and mul iply, and r pl nish  h   ar h and subdu  i : and hav  dominion ov r  h  fish of  h  s a and ov r  h  fowl of  h  air and ov r  v ry living  hing  ha  mov  h upon  h   ar h.

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B  frui ful  nd mul iply,  nd r pl nish  h    r h  nd subdu  i :  nd h v  dominion ov r  h  fish of  h  s    nd ov r  h  fowl of  h   ir  nd ov r  v ry living  hing  h   mov  h upon  h    r h.

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B  fru  ful  nd mul  ply,  nd r pl n sh  h    r h  nd subdu    :  nd h v  dom n on ov r  h  f sh of  h  s    nd ov r  h  fowl of  h    r  nd ov r  v ry l v ng  h ng  h   mov  h upon  h    r h.

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B  f u  ful  nd mul  ply,  nd   pl n sh  h      h  nd subdu    :  nd h v  dom n on ov    h  f sh of  h  s    nd ov    h  fowl of  h       nd ov    v  y l v ng  h ng  h   mov  h upon  h      h.

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Day 21 — TIL about conflicting information about Dominions

the duty of Dominions

in a strange : etymological irony : the angelic order : known as dominions : lords of the lower choirs : humanity : have been variously ascribed : a range of roles : within creation’s : governance

but most often : their mission is to administer : our universe : control the elements : supervise sun, moon, & stars : keep the planets rotating : oversee seasons : every aspect of nature : basically

it seems : they have become : derelict : in their duty

Day 19 — Reef + 10,000

Love a good pun. & irony. So ironical puns. Brilliant. Even if the topic is depressing as hell & makes me want to drink bleach.

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Great Barrier Grief

Australians are experts in irony
(& coaly, but that’s a different topic) 
hence why we’ve built a mega-massive 
coal transport terminal on the coast
bordering the Great Barrier Reef 
the only living structure visible from space

hey! we gotta get these coal-filled 
show boats to China & Indonesia somehow

— it’s not our fault there’s a few bits of coral in the way 

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Day 19 – TIL about reefs

10,000 years 

by midcentury, pretty much every reef 
in the world will be crumbling ruins

— gone after enduring 250 million years

in a blink of geological time, they’ll return
but it’ll be 10,000 years before we see a reef again

— assuming “we” even survive ourselves 

Day 21 – sacrifice zones

Big extractive companies don’t care where the goodies are; don’t care what has to be destroyed to get to them; just hope a new source of fossil fuels isn’t found near your place.

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sacrifice zones

big mining, petrochemical companies
& heavy industry — that is: extractivists — 
are all compelled by their gross beliefs

there are places that don’t matter
there are people that don’t matter
they must think this so these matter

less  nothings can be strip-mined-open-pit 
mined-clear-felled-transformed into toxic
waste dumps-dug up-drained-destroyed 

so air can be poisoned
so effluent can be pumped into rivers
so soil can be contaminated with heavy metals

& they will to continue to extract
in order to continue making a profit
they will continue to sacrifice everything

even the   earth   herself