Love Poem: The Lorax Sequel
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Written by: Gerald Dillenbeck

The Lorax Sequel

I took the only seed of hope
for any future healthy Truffula Trees,
but reminded my clinically depressed acquaintance
we are all born co-redeemers,
not addictively incubating extractors.

Ours is not to commodify 
what we did not recreate
for its sufficient regeneration,
to fairly claim any rights
to co-redemptive value.

You talk funny,
replied the Lorax.
go talk with your dead dinosaurs,
dying forests,
your failing gorillas
and polar bears,
and honey bees,
with all those fancy eco-political co-redemption
theories of cooperation.
See how they feel about their cooperative investment
in your sorry anthrocentric butt.

Not knowing quite what to say,
I thanked him for his sorry butt response
and brought this treasured seed back home
to learn what our ecotherapeutic community 
of mutual co-arisers
would most love to do
with and for our Tree of Earth's Truffula seed.

Eventually a clever PolyCultural Mediator,
Someone way in the silent back,
no one is quite sure whom,
gasped out
"Why don't you plant the damn thing somewheres
the sun shines,
unlike your sorry butts."

So we did.
We took the seed out to the meadow
and planted it where it would provide grace-filling shade
and receive water from our roof's run-off barrels,
also planted around our home.

Cooperative trees of Truffula grow quickly
in rich nutrient-balanced organic compost,
much like the rest of us
receiving more confluent love,
mutually symbiotic nutrients,
and not so much competitive monochromatic drama,
monopolistic monoculturing pushy selfishness,

Tumorous toxins subside in generous environments
of kind ecstatic contentment,
wise thoughtfulness of the 7th regeneration's future of time,
lovers of truth as deep power
and wide ecological light,
co-redeemers of economic balance 

Eco-normic health as notnot pathology appositions,
eco-multisystemic phyloregenetic linguists
of verbs as fractal-fold implicate-temporal icons 
with ionic mythic/logos Creation as ReGeneration Narrative
of Earth's Genesis,

Polycultural  cooperatives for eco-political health 
emerging regenerativity research scientists 
and permacultural designers 
and multicultural investors,
rational and sane regenerators,
rehabilitators,
reconnectors,
religionaries of sustainable sacred-holonic life-system 
inter-religious transconnected cooperation,
synergetic integrity.

Next thing you know
we have a first generation of decomposing leaves,
harvested flowers and berries,
and four perfectly balanced organic Truffula Tree seeds.

Once again our Permaculturist Family asked
how can we optimize this global future
for our children's children
with this regenerative offering
transported to where Earth as potential Heaven 
most needs such healthy wealth?

Again, dark back voice croaks,
"Why don't you give one to the North
to wave through winter's blasting wind.

One to the South
but not too far South
because coastlines become faultlines.

One to East of river
to cool her mourning grey water,
but not too high up
because aquifers grow absence,
like virtue grows sin.

One to the West horizon's mountains,
to profile all those red skies at night
you're always expecting here
in your positive psychology
sailing delight in truth-telling,
yet eco-pathology denying, 
kinda dualistic way."

But, that's not what we did.

We brought one to the polar bears,
and one to the honeybees,
one to the gorillas,
and one to the tortoises,
and in return
they gave us eggs and honey,
regenerating nutritional lessons 
in cooperative tribal and multicultural healthy living,
and co-empathic experience
with how to stay grateful and warm
through climatic winter's hibernation.

From this we learned together
to live in this polyculturing economy,
this ecological therapeutic community,
like good cooperative organic fertilizers,
health farmers,
mutually benign co-parasites,
where I let you know
what I need to invest in,
divest of,
and who I am to share,
and in exchange,
you tell me what I am to share that you need more of
and sometimes not quite so much of,
and what you have to share that might enrich 
Earth household's health.

As we become adept
with our endosymbiotic evolving Tree of Win-Win Cooperative Life,
we are diversifying our production/consumption balanced market,
mutually mentoring other communities
about what gorillas and forests,
polar bears and honey bees and tortoises teach us
and unfortunately have not learned from us,
about ecology of co-arising cooperative economics,
about becoming optimally regenerated and religioned

Co-redeemers of Earth's primal gift,
healthy life,
faithful to our co-regenerators past
temporal bilateral memories 
still ebbing and flowing through each cell,
hopeful for our seven 
regenerating future heaven.