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As published in Healing ad Conflict
(c) Ray Zimmerman, 2018

Full Speed Ahead

I wonder how there came to be
a plastic island in the sea.

No challenge to avoid a crash.
Cleave right through, our course is brash.

Beware if barnacles adorn your boat.
They’ll snag each plastic piece afloat.

Cigarette lighters float in the wrack
thick as lice on a heron’s back.

Old bleach bottle and plastic bag;
sent to landfills by both dame and hag.

The plastics escape with torrential rain;
Go down the river like soap down the drain.

Birds and turtles feed on this mess.
Dead in a week would be my guess.

So, keep your plastic safe at home.
Don’t send it out to sea to roam.

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