Wendell Berry's Questionnaire

I ran across this poem on another blog (ruminations from the distant hills) and couldn't resist reprinting it.

Questionnaire (Wendell Berry)

December 1, 2009

1. How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.

_____________   __________   ________

2. For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks
with the names of your favorite
evils and acts of hatred.

______________  ___________    ___________

3. What sacrifices are you prepared
to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines,
and works of art you would
most willingly destroy.

______________ ____________  ______________

4. In the name of patriotism and
the flag, how much of our beloved
land are you willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces
the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
you could most readily do without.

__________    __________________         ____________________

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5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
the energy sources, the kinds of security,
for which you would kill a child.
Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.

____________ _________ _______________