Galvanic Grids of Literacy, Longevity, Etc.

Let's workshop this poem that urges advanced cultures to preserve the many hard-earned folk wisdoms of indigenous peoples before the controlled burn, the Etch-A-Sketch shake, of their lands and ways

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Galvanic Grids of Literacy, Longevity, Etc. 

The brains among men—
yet we fail to safekeep
so much folk insight,
bark tea therapies

that took
generations of trial-and-error
torture to crack, before
we killdoze their lands

(for wiser use, often at least)
and splinter them
from one another
into cultural oblivion.

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