particulates
what’s in the air
beside air
beside oxygen and nitrogen
argon
and the rest that has been there
for ages
with additions of smoke
in time
and then smog
radioactivity
changing art appreciation
and
the health of lungs
and such
other chemicals by now
plus plastic
parts
parts per million I suppose to measure
we breathe in bad things by us
belying the cartoon
version
of
artificial respiration
out with the bad air
in with the good
now
out with the bad air
in with badder
why we pollute ourselves
should be
a global conundrum
of
some
well
great urgency
we breathe through filters
helped by machines and when it’s worse
through
masks
we drink water from our plastic
metal bottles
we think we are immune
I guess
some of us
I guess
while failing to track for everyone
since
everyone’s affected
the work of all
societies
that measure and by measure
warn
the rates of cancer
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photo by Leo_Visions on Unsplash
“Los Angeles, CA, USA”
(another preachy poem, and I could be sorry, but this one came to mind and word by my experience)
(x = space)
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poem plus a verse nodding to tomorrow
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Flesh and Plastic
(having heard about the current cancer rates)
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How do we poison
Ourselves
How do the cancer rates
Increase
I looked outside
Through polluted air
While inside
My mother fought for life
Or couldn’t fight
When the disease
Or medications
Were too much
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And I couldn’t help
But wonder
Do we do this to each other
Change condensation nuclei
From dirt
To chemical compounds
And so our snow in winter
Raindrops
All year ‘round
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We poison up our food
The animals
And plants might have it
Too
With all the Earth
We used to praise
And respect
If only scenery
For action
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And now maybe
The Earth talks back
To say
You could once blame us
For our parts
In quakes and floods
Eruptions
But as you do
What you do
To yourselves
With how you build
And how you bury
How you live
We must share the blame
For a plastic planet
Made of chemicals
That do not make the cycle
Of planting
And fruition
But poison everything
Removing what is natural
(what is ours)
From the seasons
x
From what is natural
For life
The life that we would have for you
Even with quakes
And flooding
Eruptions
The harsher liturgy
We provide
With all the living
Rather
Life
x
The God whom we report to
Might be sad
Might be angry
Might be waiting
As with faith
For you to get it
Change
While polluted soil
And water
Air
We keep waiting as we can
For change
For better boxing
As discretion
To let the poison
Be mistakes that mar
Rather than
Daily living
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For now we take
The poisons as we can
While expecting
Your human race to change
Before the earthline
Fails
And falls
Before the fire consumes
Where then
Would you go
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We wait
God waits
So change
Already
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Photo by Brian Yurasits on Unsplash
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Introit to All Souls
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November two
All Souls
Yesterday to celebrate
The living church
Now to remember
Reconnoiter with
The church that has gone on
Some of which
That stays behind
To watch
To receive prayers
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CLC
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(x = space)
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Mything Thursday
(in pandemic time)
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There are few untouched
Places on Earth
For when we see the,
We have touched them
They are changed
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I wonder if the virus
Might be made of plastic,
A natural invention
And response to our touch
We needed plastic
In the war,
Then its convenience took over
Making things
And we blew it into the sky
From our factories
We could wish for coal
And dirt and rust and oil
In the air
Though they have needed
Cleaning, too
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To places needing cleaning,
There seem to be two
Options: clean them
Or ignore them
Throw a carpet over it
Go to another room
And finally another place
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Or do a half-done job
A sloppy job
Of making do
Because there is no profit in
Cleaning up
Except for cleaning companies
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So let’s have cleaning companies!
People who know how
To fix a world
Rearrange it, replace broken
Parts, dust everything
So we might move again
Into timeworn places
Inhabitable again
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Know how to rebuild
And build new
So we don’t poison ourselves
So much, again
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Photo by Antoine GIRET on Unsplash
Mountain of rubbish and garbage on the beach by the sea[.]
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