EURO-TERMINUS In response to the danger of industrial pollution an Eastern Indian Chief asked his White audience: "Why are you not furious that someone is threatening your seventh generation?" A veneer of courtesy hiding annoyance of muted fright politely deferred reply. Only much later when each in self-confiding on edges of troubled sleep the answer came. Of course we're not Indians, if ever, perceiving almost nothing and no one before parent's parents, after children's children, in fact so entranced with high-tech styles of escape and flight to some rock-decibel dance or flickering windows of fraud, plasticating fast semi-nutrition with numbing chemical delight to grip a parentless, childless, babyish NOW, NOW, NOW by driving too fast on killer highways leaving them all behind in carcynic exhaustion, to clean up the mess, not furious but FREE, no seventh generation in either direction to care even less for this enemy WE ( ! )

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