"We Ascribe To Nature How We Treat Each Other”

The difference between death and extinction
Is in the molecule of suffering that gives us light,
That makes us want to preserve the joys in despite of the indifferent universe.
That icy darkness that alienates us from ourselves,
As much as we might think struggling for good is pointless.
And which sorts us as naturally separate as on a capitalist’s conveyor belt,
Or other images of what profitably decimates life
Which have been with us since the romantics.
Since that industrialism that will consume us all in black;
But for our striving still to defeat what postures
It can’t be defeated.
I wonder if we thought up an indifferent world
Out of the calculated indifference of the order which birthed us.
These grim Appalachian hills and deadness to the oppression
Of history in the silhouettes
Of property. At least you, the poem
Is such a good way to man our spirits up
And say fuck you to resignation.
Especially to that constant patriarch who is chief executive
Of the world.