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Tamara Best
Madoc ON, Canada
Tamara was a burned-out performer, activist, and community worker that
fled to the woods of Eastern Ontario ten years ago to
raise children, vegetables, and occasionally a ruckus.
Largely self-taught, Tamara is in the process of
revising a full-length book of concepts, ideas, and
fragments of distilled thought (also known as poetry).
Completed:
20th June 2020
Broke/n
I’ve long said that if everyone
had a lifestyle like mine
The entire economic system
would collapse
Businesses are shuttered
Civilization is at a stand
still
Reduced to the point
Of spending time alone
If everyone lived like me
We would all be nobodies
Working all day
Non-stop busy-like
But never actually
Going to work
If everyone threw up their
collective hands
All of the machines would go
quiet
Listen, they said
To nothing in particular
We came to find
Silence
If everyone dug deeply into
earth
And then put it all back as it
was found
We wouldn’t
Be in this mess
We wouldn’t
Have any messes
If everyone started copying
these habits
The mall and everything in it
Would be nothing but
An anachronism
Strange relics
Of an even stranger time
Might not need to
be fixed
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