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Plastic World
by Danae Wilkin → (All Poetry by Danae Wilkin)
Friday, February 20, 2015 Rated "PG" by the Author.

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What are we doing with our sacred earth and water? Can we change, or...

Plastic World Everywhere Oozing out, Can you see it? You’re wearing it. Shoelace threaders, Buttons, polyester, Vinyl. Seatbelts, Barrettes, clips Girls’ 99 cent slip-ons. You sip it: Water, soda bottles. You turn it on: Light plate switches, Oven dials, Range-top vents, Ceiling fans, Elevators, Remote controls, Appliances, Christmas lights. You play it: Whiffle ball, Flat screen televisions, Stereo systems, DVD, CD, Cassettes, Records, MP3 cases, Speakers, Keyboards, Video game consoles. It holds your memory: Computers, Thumb drives, External hard drives. It connects you: Ethernet and phone jacks, Hubs and wire ends, Headphones and chargers. It holds your edibles: Ziplocs, Tupperware, Cling wrap, Shopping carts, Tray tables, Olive oil, Spices, Vitamins, Candy, Coffee beans, Frozen meals, Grocery store produce, Microwave popcorn, Lids for any material, Pan handle insulators. You open it up: Blinds’ turners, Refrigerator doors, Washing machines. It holds your Hanged clothes, Hand sanitizer, Driver’s license, Potted plants, Pen ink, Laundry detergent, Paintings, Photographs, Memorabilia, Knife blades, Computer monitors, Arm and back supports For modern chairs and everything you buy, Over-sized for theft, Fort Knox to open. It’s on airplanes, in cars, Soundboard panels, Fast food signs, Telephones. It can even be used to hold itself: Chapstick and gasoline, Trashcans and lighters. We burn it. And childrens’ Toy stores Sell these items Almost exclusively. Hook them early. Make it ubiquitous. Who cares where it comes from? Who cares where it goes to? A thousand years from now Like the Bronze or the Iron This will be known as The Plastic Age: A layer in time That would not decay, Killed land and sea animals, Poisoned people, Who could not stop, This convenient cheap consumption. So drink up petroleum generation. Plastic World Everywhere Oozing out, Can you see it? You’re wearing it. Shoelace threaders, Buttons, polyester, Vinyl. Seatbelts, Barrettes, clips Girls’ 99 cent slip-ons. You sip it: Water, soda bottles. You turn it on: Light plate switches, Oven dials, Range-top vents, Ceiling fans, Elevators, Remote controls, Appliances, Christmas lights. You play it: Whiffle ball, Flat screen televisions, Stereo systems, DVD, CD, Cassettes, Records, MP3 cases, Speakers, Keyboards, Video game consoles. It holds your memory: Computers, Thumb drives, External hard drives. It connects you: Ethernet and phone jacks, Hubs and wire ends, Headphones and chargers. It holds your edibles: Ziplocs, Tupperware, Cling wrap, Shopping carts, Tray tables, Olive oil, Spices, Vitamins, Candy, Coffee beans, Frozen meals, Grocery store produce, Microwave popcorn, Lids for any material, Pan handle insulators. You open it up: Blinds’ turners, Refrigerator doors, Washing machines. It holds your Hanged clothes, Hand sanitizer, Driver’s license, Potted plants, Pen ink, Laundry detergent, Paintings, Photographs, Memorabilia, Knife blades, Computer monitors, Arm and back supports For modern chairs and everything you buy, Over-sized for theft, Fort Knox to open. It’s on airplanes, in cars, Soundboard panels, Fast food signs, Telephones. It can even be used to hold itself: Chapstick and gasoline, Trashcans and lighters. We burn it. And childrens’ Toy stores Sell these items Almost exclusively. Hook them early. Make it ubiquitous. Who cares where it comes from? Who cares where it goes to? A thousand years from now Like the Bronze or the Iron This will be known as The Plastic Age: A layer in time That would not decay, Killed land and sea animals, Poisoned people, Who could not stop, This convenient cheap consumption. So drink up petroleum generation. - See more at: http://allpoetry.com/poem/11913718-Plastic-World-by-Danae-Wilkin#sthash.8v7JP154.dpuf Plastic World Everywhere Oozing out, Can you see it? You’re wearing it. Shoelace threaders, Buttons, polyester, Vinyl. Seatbelts, Barrettes, clips Girls’ 99 cent slip-ons. You sip it: Water, soda bottles. You turn it on: Light plate switches, Oven dials, Range-top vents, Ceiling fans, Elevators, Remote controls, Appliances, Christmas lights. You play it: Whiffle ball, Flat screen televisions, Stereo systems, DVD, CD, Cassettes, Records, MP3 cases, Speakers, Keyboards, Video game consoles. It holds your memory: Computers, Thumb drives, External hard drives. It connects you: Ethernet and phone jacks, Hubs and wire ends, Headphones and chargers. It holds your edibles: Ziplocs, Tupperware, Cling wrap, Shopping carts, Tray tables, Olive oil, Spices, Vitamins, Candy, Coffee beans, Frozen meals, Grocery store produce, Microwave popcorn, Lids for any material, Pan handle insulators. You open it up: Blinds’ turners, Refrigerator doors, Washing machines. It holds your Hanged clothes, Hand sanitizer, Driver’s license, Potted plants, Pen ink, Laundry detergent, Paintings, Photographs, Memorabilia, Knife blades, Computer monitors, Arm and back supports For modern chairs and everything you buy, Over-sized for theft, Fort Knox to open. It’s on airplanes, in cars, Soundboard panels, Fast food signs, Telephones. It can even be used to hold itself: Chapstick and gasoline, Trashcans and lighters. We burn it. And childrens’ Toy stores Sell these items Almost exclusively. Hook them early. Make it ubiquitous. Who cares where it comes from? Who cares where it goes to? A thousand years from now Like the Bronze or the Iron This will be known as The Plastic Age: A layer in time That would not decay, Killed land and sea animals, Poisoned people, Who could not stop, This convenient cheap consumption. So drink up petroleum generation. - See more at: http://allpoetry.com/poem/11913718-Plastic-World-by-Danae-Wilkin#sthash.8v7JP154.dpuf Plastic World Everywhere Oozing out, Can you see it? You’re wearing it. Shoelace threaders, Buttons, polyester, Vinyl. Seatbelts, Barrettes, clips Girls’ 99 cent slip-ons. You sip it: Water, soda bottles. You turn it on: Light plate switches, Oven dials, Range-top vents, Ceiling fans, Elevators, Remote controls, Appliances, Christmas lights. You play it: Whiffle ball, Flat screen televisions, Stereo systems, DVD, CD, Cassettes, Records, MP3 cases, Speakers, Keyboards, Video game consoles. It holds your memory: Computers, Thumb drives, External hard drives. It connects you: Ethernet and phone jacks, Hubs and wire ends, Headphones and chargers. It holds your edibles: Ziplocs, Tupperware, Cling wrap, Shopping carts, Tray tables, Olive oil, Spices, Vitamins, Candy, Coffee beans, Frozen meals, Grocery store produce, Microwave popcorn, Lids for any material, Pan handle insulators. You open it up: Blinds’ turners, Refrigerator doors, Washing machines. It holds your Hanged clothes, Hand sanitizer, Driver’s license, Potted plants, Pen ink, Laundry detergent, Paintings, Photographs, Memorabilia, Knife blades, Computer monitors, Arm and back supports For modern chairs and everything you buy, Over-sized for theft, Fort Knox to open. It’s on airplanes, in cars, Soundboard panels, Fast food signs, Telephones. It can even be used to hold itself: Chapstick and gasoline, Trashcans and lighters. We burn it. And childrens’ Toy stores Sell these items Almost exclusively. Hook them early. Make it ubiquitous. Who cares where it comes from? Who cares where it goes to? A thousand years from now Like the Bronze or the Iron This will be known as The Plastic Age: A layer in time That would not decay, Killed land and sea animals, Poisoned people, Who could not stop, This convenient cheap consumption. So drink up petroleum generation. - See more at: http://allpoetry.com/poem/11913718-Plastic-World-by-Danae-Wilkin#sthash.8v7JP154.dpuf

Reviewed by Clarence Prince

Reviewed on September 26, 2015

"This will be known as
As the plastic Age:
A layer in time ...."
Well said, Danae!

Reviewed by Amor Sabor

Reviewed on February 23, 2015

It is here, therefore we must continue to recycle. Unfortunately a great deal of these wind up in our water supplies, streams, creeks, rivers and eventually in the ocean. We have also see islands of plastics and other waste products.

Reviewed by jude forese

Reviewed on February 21, 2015

insane isn't it?

Reviewed by George Carroll

Don't expect to see this end soon. New inventions needed.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull

And, the sad part is, it can be 99% recycled. I saw it first in Third World countries like Guatemala where, after huge earthquakes, our aid of plastic water containers over the traditional pottery and the influx of polyester clothing over the traditional wool handwoven garments left the countryside littered with plastic because the people had always thrown away the biodegradable containers made of plants and wood and kept the pottery and ceramics a very long time.

Those of us in the "civilized" world have found ingenious ways to disguise what we randomly throw away with abandon, but this is just as bad or worse. And as you have so eloquently put with the last line, all based on petroleum and the ills from that that are insidiously working against us.

When will we ever learn?

Ron

Reviewed by Odin odin@aflx.com

Plastic is indeed the constant reminder that with every convenience comes a price. Unfortunately, most ignore the price (that oh so simple act of recycling) and try to steal their time left as a sentient by discarding nonchalantly, forgetting that unlike most of nature, humans are the only life force trying desperately to destroy its very natural sustanance with unconscious abandonment.

Reviewed by Michael Schafer

Along with Edward's thoughts, I would add that I think everything as much as possible should be recyclable, and then recycle it.
Well said.

Michael D.

Reviewed by E Phillips

Reviewed on February 20, 2015

As thorough a list of consumable junk as ever compiled
with a thoroughly apt outcome. Bravo for telling us what
thoroughly debased gluttons we are and how we have thoroughly
failed as guardians of this planet we call home.