at the opening of the account
we owed you the earth
but decided instead to live on hawked time and money
and trade and squander all your resources
all of them
as if they were limitless and always ours to keep
ever going to the highest bidder
running up an unnatural overdraft at such a pace
we poisoned the air with lead writing bad cheques
and now the  hot wind of insolvency and need howls in across the sterile prairie

and the rising rank waters of desperation  fill our footsteps  
as we fearfully  huddle cradling our things
lest they perish - as if they could!
and seek out protection
limited liability
but at the close of day
at the tolling of the bell
there are no futures and options

no credit swaps
beyond the mass grave we have mortgaged ourselves into

a barren balance that will never sprout a single flower in interest

nor ever profit by as much as one truly remorseful human tear

wetted in sorrow,  pity or rememberance 

we owed you the earth

and yet prepare to leave it

shorn of value and worth

debased 

exhausted , worked out

massively over subscribed and irreverisibly  spent

this is how we close the account

having shunned the economy

of nature's double entry  bookeeping and karmic thrift

we leave nothing bar an eternity to recollect 

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