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   In Praise of Thrift
Scale back, restrain
Resist the pull of goods
Do without and be
Content with less.
Learn to wonder
And be in awe.
Live a life without
Inflicting hurt on
Those elsewhere.

Break away and
Set yourself free
Halt the treadmill
And learn to let go.
Try to move towards
A new beginning.

Pay back our debt to nature.
Use and re-use and turn
Old into new and new again.
And so change a straight line to waste
Into a circle of rebirth.