*Famous quote in 1967’s “The Graduate”. Mr. Robinson speaking to graduate Ben Braddock, “One word, plastic! There is a great future in plastic.” …Perhaps then, but now the future is buried in plastic!
“The Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is 617,000 square miles!
There They Are
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watch them
see them
there they are
dwelling in their shrines of excess
lairs of self-indulgence
altars to waste
their temples of foolish disregard
for our precious planet
observe them hoist themselves
to command positions
in gluttonous drive-time dinosaurs
dreaded treaded behemoths
that bully across the face
of our strained and crippled planet
devouring resources
like a herd
of metallic mastodons
a relentless forage
of fragile fossil fuel
to suck dry
the paleozoic nectar
300 million years
in the making
a fraction of that
to plunder and deplete
with frivolous toys
of self-extinction
that spew forth
poisonous discharge
fouling the choking atmosphere
watch them
see them
there they are
they worship convenience
they shun the conscientious
they create their chemical concoctions
they create their plastics
their plastic bags
their plastic bottles
their plastic packages
their plastic values
disposable and deadly
that offer only moments of convenience
but decades upon decades of destruction
killing the beautiful
the birds, beasts, and fishes
that roam free this planet
struggling to live in balance
with arrogant careless humans
who clog, poison, and pummel
the frail ecosystem
meant for all living things
shoving earth closer
ever closer
to the brink of no return
to satisfy a toxic desire
for bigger, faster, easier
the ever more lazy
hungry to feed a caustic ego
to assert perceived dominion
the special
the spoiled
the outrageously dangerous
