For the Century's End Quotes

“Notes on the Capitalist Persuasion I “Everything is connected to everything . . .” So runs the executive saw, cutting both ways on the theme of all improvement: Your string is my string when I pull it my way. In my detachment is your dependency. In your small and backward nation some minor wealth still beckons— was it lumber, gas, or only sugar? Thus by imperial logic, with carefully aimed negotiation, my increase is your poverty. When the mortgage payments falter, then in fair market exchange your account is my account, your savings become my bonus, your home my house to sell. In my approval is your dispossession.”
― John Haines, For The Century's End: Poems 1990-1999