Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know.
Listen to carrion — put your ear
close, and hear the faint chattering
of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world. Laugh.
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
though you have considered all the facts.
Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.
Selected
from “Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front”
by
Wendell Berry from The Country of Marriage, Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, Inc. 1973.
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