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loggers

i was wondering when nature’s rights were
substituted for human rights, somebody tell me

because, I mean, I care about the environment and all
I like trees, and I’m a vegetarian

but I was in a car with an environmentalist once
talking about the national forests, how they

were largely destroyed in the early nineteen hundreds
by loggers, but are protected now, and this environmentalist

said to me, “kill the loggers”
and the thing was, he meant it

he said he didn’t, but he did, and I wonder if he realizes
what he’s willing to sacrifice for what he thinks is right

i wonder if the loggers would agree with him


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