Anthem for Doomed Truth

(In memory of the Pantisocratic poets)

There once was a garden

It had everything

You cannot imagine the joy it could bring

Its bounty and beauty both belonged to none

Yet at the same moment were for everyone

Let’s divide the beaches

Divide up the seas

Let’s judge every human by what he can seize

We’ll count out the mountains

And for further larks

We’ll make private parking

From all public parks

There once was a country

As big as the world

Then came a tooled primate whose notions unfurled

Taxonomic visions and fearsome greed

Well you can imagine how it would proceed

So sing out the anthems

Draw up the lines

The border’s a prison by what it defines

Ignore common feeling

And try to repress

How shared Love and Fear

Make us one with the rest