the commodification machine

"commodify" from modus "measure"

"Number is as fundamental as the other three cardinal metaphors,
space, time, and matter because it is an interrelated aspect of the
divide-and-conquer metaphor which extends and diversifies the primal unity." - Roger S. Jones, from Physics As Metaphor

where's the pleasure
when everything's measured,
and why isn't water declared
a national treasure,
because everything's tallied
by numbers in a ledger

monthly bills with
amounts of water,
oil, natural gas, and electricity
the measurement's diminishing the felicity

it's mean (literally)
and pretends to be green
the opposite of grist to the mill,
the commodification machine

the commodification machine
with Midas touch
but what you gonna eat
when you touch your burger
and it's no longer meat

the selfishness is in the word, "mine"
mine for copper, mine for nickel,
mine for lithium, mine for gold
but alchemy is turning cucumber into pickle

grains of sand
and stars in the sky,
too many to count
but at least the stars
they can't commodify

where's the pleasure
when everything's measured,
why isn't land declared
a national treasure,
because everything's tallied
by numbers in a ledger

the destruction and deadly side-effects
of divide-and-conquers
proves that disregarding primal unity
is totally bonkers

raindrops, snowflakes,
blades of grass, wildflowers,
too many to count
even with countless hours

it's mean (literally)
and pretends to be green
the opposite of grist to the mill,
the commodification machine