Tim Torkildson's Clown Alley
The Poet Laureate of the New York Times Newsroom
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Civilization
To civilize the native tribes
We offer them all sorts of bribes.
Disease and liquor, pants and skirt --
Sugar that makes their teeth hurt.
Instead perhaps we ought to push
Ourselves back to the jungle bush.
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