TY - JOUR AU - Weishaus, Joel PY - 2014/04/27 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Hacking It; Laying New Pipe; & Clearing The Ground JF - UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies JA - UnderCurrents VL - 18 IS - SE - Online Exclusive DO - 10.25071/2292-4736/38663 UR - https://currents.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/currents/article/view/38663 SP - AB - <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">HACKING IT</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></p> <p>cast iron pipe sawed straight through,<br /> blisters rising from the small hacksaw</p> <p>rushing to meet its end, singing,<br /> <em>with you with you with you with you</em>...</p><br /><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">LAYING NEW PIPE</span></p> <p>Where turds bob up with clogs<br /> of toilet paper and Tampax,<br /> mint trees &amp; flowers thrive,<br /> the line was cracked by roots.</p> <p>One hundred year old terra cotta pipe,<br /> a young Bay tree broke her way through.</p> <p>We lay ten foot lengths black plastic tube,<br /> glue the joints, cross the stream, on out...</p><p> </p><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">CLEARING THE GROUND</span></p> <p>Clearing the ground,<br /> Frantically working the gears,<br /> Grabbing handles, <br /> pulling levers,<br /> billows of dust...</p> <p>O MAN, dragged over the land<br /> Behind a machine!!</p> <p>Tearing freeways, cracking sidewalks,<br /> Universities, libraries...whole worlds<br /> Of consciousness plowed back to seed.</p> ER -