Landfill Museum

By Steve Baratta

The writing in the unraveling scroll "The natural jungle has but disappeared" is an early environmental-global warming poem (1987) that later became the drive force for the painting 'The Car Commercial' (1991). These next passages are two different poems in the book, restacked in curious context.
"No time left for counting, counting up the planet's losses,
for I'm just a soul of a dirt clod vs. flying saucers.
Rocket ships fly high and the moon is full of dust
while some time ago the robot knew that he was going to rust..."
"Heaven isn't far away around the corner of today past
the sorrow and confusion living dreams beyond illusion."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steve Baratta
• Release date: Feb 24, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311346094

Steve Baratta

I am from Portland, Oregon and a product of my times and thoughts. Here are exeprts from the book: "The principal of poison is at play while the crown of modern man it shines so regal. While the code of his destruction for the day is it's o.k. as long as it is legal." "It's a raging war of devices all chanting the best prices, while nature is in crisis, but baby's got to have new shoes. Creation suffocation now I'm assembly lined inclined to feel those profit man blues. When the rising tide of waste is more than just yesterday's news." "Trees grow and people try while animals know the reason why."

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