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   The Zone
Yes, but it could meet
Our needs for decades.
Suck up the nuggets
Waiting on the sea floor
For us.

Yes, but who has the right
To disturb a system
Content in the cold dark
Of the ocean seabed?
Churn up their world,
Leave and let the dust settle.
Leave and let them recover
On their own.

Well, it’s a law of nature:
What can be done
Will be done.
And sooner
Rather than later.

Yes, but can’t we at last
Try something else:
Not do everything
We can.

And maybe, just maybe,
What seems necessary
Today is not necessary
After all.