to school with beavers

 

i enrolled myself at the beaver school

to learn the art of gnawing the tree

grown massive sucking, and sucking

all minerals leaving none to the fragile

shrubs, or the creeping vines around!

those trees have grown gigantic

as the Hawaiian banyan alienating the minute

pushing the little and making them marginal

subverting the small and the humane

making the vital needs of the needy

subordinate to the gluttonous institution!

in that school i did quickly learn

Moses, Amos, John, and even Jesus

had walked those portals training humans

to gnaw, like beavers, the trees, institutions

serving not an authentic growth of the small!

henry victor      10.05.2007