I

ODE TO MAN

UNISON SECTION 2
Numberless fruits, terrible fruits bloom on He has connected the Earth,
Earth, but none the match for man In search of a new beginning, his rebirth!
He devours them all in one big bite and eats
all he can PABLO
From North to South,
UNISON
Through the conception of the grocery store, VINCENT
He has found the food he spent ages looking and East to West,
for
A paradise for the modern day omnivore UNISON
From all over the world, exotic foods galore! He scours the Earth to fulfill his quest.

SECTION 1 SECTION 1
Time so valuable, once spent hunting and Since ancient times, the silk road he paved
gathering Providing others with whatever they craved.
Can now be spent learning and Spices from India, marble from Rome.
manufacturing These and many more, with him, he brought
home.
UNISON
Oh genius man, praise man SECTION 2
The grocery store and all other resources Using exotic foods from around the world,
man had to plan Mans creation, the grocery store, was
unfurled.
MEGAN From orange to figs, kiwis to pears
Refrigeration Fruits of the Earth, every man shares.

BRUCE UNISON
Transportation And so, he has been well-fed since birth.

RALUCA SECTION 2
and diplomatic delegations Thanks to the grocery store, feeding
humanity
UNISON The very store keeps his sanity
Man made them all, used them all in the
execution SECTION 1
Of the grocery store; his plan has come to And impulses and consumerism taking
fruition control
Thinking of how to fill his plates and bowls
UNISON
Man the skilled, the brilliant! BRUCE
To the elements he has grown resilient, He buys them all as quick as a flicker
Conquering great, new lands unknown, The pile in his shopping cart grows ever
To adventures and travels, he is greatly bigger
prone.
 II
ODE TO MAN

SIMON UNISON
From America Should we cast out the man who weds
himself to theft?
ANDREW The man who has virtually no honor left?
to India
PABLO SECTION 2
to Hungary The banana farmers on the plantations:
A pittance are their compensations.
MEGAN The bananas they obligingly reap
to Tibet So we may buy it cheap.

RALUCA SECTION 1
Hes taken it all, you can bet Poor ranchers, raising their cattle
UNISON Living every day is a struggle, a battle
Ready, resourceful man!
SECTION 2
SECTION 2 Processing factories making food that will
But what is the one thing the grocery store be ours
fails to evade? Force workers to put in hard, long hours

UNISON UNISON
The art of robbery, a mockery of us, it has What is the harm in stealing foods that have
made already once been stolen?

UNISON SECTION 1
The robber, he is the most silent customer of Birds, worms, and bees we doom,
them all Pesticides sprayed on food destined for the
He makes not one trip, not one fall dining room.
Cunning as the fox, fast as the hare
He, the robber, thinks we need not care SECTION 2
For food and money, nature we have
SIMON subdued
Here he comes, see him now The way we treat our Earth, its crude.

ANDREW SECTION 1
Subtle in his approach, he takes no bow We slash and burn; tear up the ground
Until a barren desert is all thats around.
SECTION 1
The lead actor with no spotlight SECTION 2
He wishes not to be in the limelight We are worse than tsetse fly,
We suck the Earths lifeblood dry.
BRUCE Rivers, streams, and lakes too,
O greed, from you alone the groceries find All pumped dry for our sink and loo.
no rescue,
Of those with scruples, there are left only a
few.
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ODE TO MAN

MEGAN
Were out of control, cant stop ourselves,

BRUCE
The names Globalization; ringing the alarm
bells

UNISON
Is this robber the only one here?
Or are there more among us to fear?

That man who weds himself to inhumanity -

always share my hearth
Always think my thoughts - whoever robs
the earth

We are all guilty,

All of us culprits, now the truth is laid bare.