The Literary Magazine 2020 Spring "A Future"
The Anglo-American School of Moscow annual Literary Magazine serves to spread, cultivate and popularize knowledge and skills related to creative writing, digital design, and arts among the AAS High School community.
The Anglo-American School of Moscow annual Literary Magazine serves to spread, cultivate and popularize knowledge and skills related to creative writing, digital design, and arts among the AAS High School community.
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Yana Tucker
An oil pump stands, lonesome
In the vast expanse of the desert around it,
Moving its head up, and down, and up, and down
Like a drinking bird. Hungrily
It sips from the source below,
The black gold it extracts
An elixir of life for the few
Who run our society.
And the resources we reap
Now fuel the anger of a beast,
Woken long ago in our effort
To modernize, commercialize, industrialize,
Who, in his day-to-day rampage,
Takes, and takes, and takes,
As if the world is but a bowl
Full of peppermint candies.
And the roar of the beast
Silences screams for sustainability
And warnings of our impending doom,
Leaving behind only shouts of anger,
And material gain. His growl
Puts down the educated,
Favoring only the rich and powerful
Who can tame the animal.
These conquerors have now left the Earth
A mere shell of her former self, a carcass
Picked clean by a ravenous animal, desperate
To find even the smallest morsel of food.
And the former beauty of the world -
Now a distant memory fixed in our minds,
Like a still life painting immortalizes
A brief moment in history…
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