
{"id":172,"date":"2026-01-12T11:54:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/?p=172"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:54:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:54:02","slug":"the-hungry-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/2026\/01\/12\/the-hungry-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"The hungry sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr data-start=\"138\" data-end=\"141\" \/>\n<p data-start=\"143\" data-end=\"265\">They told us to be patient.<br data-start=\"170\" data-end=\"173\" \/>They sold us patience in plastic containers,<br data-start=\"217\" data-end=\"220\" \/>patience with lids that never quite sealed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"267\" data-end=\"358\">While the air thickened.<br data-start=\"291\" data-end=\"294\" \/>While rivers learned new routes<br data-start=\"325\" data-end=\"328\" \/>through basements and bones.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"360\" data-end=\"450\">This didn\u2019t happen by accident.<br data-start=\"391\" data-end=\"394\" \/>Say that plainly.<br data-start=\"411\" data-end=\"414\" \/>Say it until it bruises the mouth.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"452\" data-end=\"546\">Hands signed papers.<br data-start=\"472\" data-end=\"475\" \/>Hands cut corners.<br data-start=\"493\" data-end=\"496\" \/>Hands counted profit<br data-start=\"516\" data-end=\"519\" \/>while the fields coughed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"548\" data-end=\"672\">The hunger wasn\u2019t sudden.<br data-start=\"573\" data-end=\"576\" \/>It was engineered.<br data-start=\"594\" data-end=\"597\" \/>Deferred.<br data-start=\"606\" data-end=\"609\" \/>Outsourced to the future<br data-start=\"633\" data-end=\"636\" \/>like waste, like risk, like blame.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"674\" data-end=\"831\">We were told the wind would clean itself.<br data-start=\"715\" data-end=\"718\" \/>That the market would correct the sky.<br data-start=\"756\" data-end=\"759\" \/>That growth was a law of nature,<br data-start=\"791\" data-end=\"794\" \/>not a choice sharpened into policy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"833\" data-end=\"954\">Meanwhile, the sheep kept looking up,<br data-start=\"870\" data-end=\"873\" \/>not stupid,<br data-start=\"884\" data-end=\"887\" \/>just trapped inside a system<br data-start=\"915\" data-end=\"918\" \/>that mistook obedience for virtue.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"956\" data-end=\"1083\">What rots inwardly is not the planet.<br data-start=\"993\" data-end=\"996\" \/>It\u2019s the story we were fed.<br data-start=\"1023\" data-end=\"1026\" \/>That no one is responsible.<br data-start=\"1053\" data-end=\"1056\" \/>That nothing can be done.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1085\" data-end=\"1114\">That is the real contagion.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1116\" data-end=\"1228\">Anger is not pollution.<br data-start=\"1139\" data-end=\"1142\" \/>Anger is clarity.<br data-start=\"1159\" data-end=\"1162\" \/>Anger says: this air has owners.<br data-start=\"1194\" data-end=\"1197\" \/>This poison has fingerprints.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1230\" data-end=\"1361\">And action does not arrive like weather.<br data-start=\"1270\" data-end=\"1273\" \/>It is made.<br data-start=\"1284\" data-end=\"1287\" \/>It is seized.<br data-start=\"1300\" data-end=\"1303\" \/>It is shouted across fences<br data-start=\"1330\" data-end=\"1333\" \/>and written into refusals.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1363\" data-end=\"1446\">Dig here.<br data-start=\"1372\" data-end=\"1375\" \/>Block that.<br data-start=\"1386\" data-end=\"1389\" \/>Stop buying the lie<br data-start=\"1408\" data-end=\"1411\" \/>wrapped in convenience and delay.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1448\" data-end=\"1557\">The future is not asking politely anymore.<br data-start=\"1490\" data-end=\"1493\" \/>It is knocking things over.<br data-start=\"1520\" data-end=\"1523\" \/>It is setting deadlines on fire.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1559\" data-end=\"1689\">Let the sheep look up<br data-start=\"1580\" data-end=\"1583\" \/>and then let them move.<br data-start=\"1606\" data-end=\"1609\" \/>Let them break ranks.<br data-start=\"1630\" data-end=\"1633\" \/>Let them trample the myth<br data-start=\"1658\" data-end=\"1661\" \/>that hunger is inevitable.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1691\" data-end=\"1832\">Nothing will feed us<br data-start=\"1711\" data-end=\"1714\" \/>unless we decide<br data-start=\"1730\" data-end=\"1733\" \/>to stop being quiet<br data-start=\"1752\" data-end=\"1755\" \/>and start being dangerous<br data-start=\"1780\" data-end=\"1783\" \/>to the systems<br data-start=\"1797\" data-end=\"1800\" \/>that profit from our starvation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; They told us to be patient.They sold us patience in plastic containers,patience with lids that never quite sealed. 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