<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><div><b>“Our Mother Earth”</b> by Joshua Isham</div><div><br></div><div>This Mother Earth,</div><div>Who gives us life;</div><div>This Mother Earth,</div><div>Heart filled with strife,</div><div><br></div><div>We love her not,</div><div>Though love we should;</div><div>Her death we plot,</div><div>For life's "own good;"</div><div><br></div><div>She gave us air, and food, and home.</div><div>That's not enough we humans scream;</div><div>With greedy lust, our mouths do foam,</div><div>With evil hopes, our eyes do gleam;</div><div><br></div><div>Her air we fill</div><div>With smoke and death;</div><div>Ourselves we kill,</div><div>For lack of breath;</div><div><br></div><div>The sea once clean,</div><div>Now choked with waste;</div><div>To drink, we fear,</div><div>Will death make haste;</div><div><br></div><div>The soil once pure</div><div>And full of life,</div><div>Now barren sand</div><div>Of farmers' strife;</div><div><br></div><div>No longer she</div><div>Can stand our "love;"</div><div>Now we must flee</div><div>Like scattered dove;</div><div><br></div><div>She gave us all,</div><div>Unto the end;</div><div>Now we appalled,</div><div>Our lives defend.</div></div><div><br></div>——————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>