TREE Issue 2

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I understand how we got here, and perhaps that's the hardest part. We elevated success and twisted money­making into art. We've forgotten our treasure, and we've forgotten our heart. Always looking for the next step, taking that next leap for human kind, seeing all of our problems as the things we leave behind. Saying that we're smart enough, that we will find the solution. But we usually don’t, we just move on. Evolution, we call it­­as if we have grown. When since the beginning of time, all we've done is reaped what we've sown. Seeds of deceit, of violence, and fear. Shown in their faces; in their bruises, in their tears. I was once warned of ivory towers­­places where men seek and find comfort in power. So remember this, next time you sit where I'm sitting, banging for release from these walls I keep hitting— remember the cost of the lives that we're living. Michelle Downer Haiku Two

Haiku 4

Facebook makes me sad. Coffee Is a Drug I do not like your dumb post. You withdraw and she saves you Forgive me, unfriend. Coffee Heroine? 2

John Walker Beatty


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