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Green Plan

by Chris Sorrenti


Now class, it’s time to buckle down to our department store text books,
the neon scientists that we are; and let us consider for a moment,
environmental politics guaranteeing industry continue poisoning the planet
for another hundred years; albeit at a reduced rate. What's it matter?
Plush furniture and stereo equipment are an end to justify the means.

And in the process, so what if we kill off all the wildlife?
There’ll still be the zoos! Those marvels of human nature.

Meanwhile, we can point Hubble’s eye at the pristine sky
to locate our latest nuclear reactor; the bankers already guaranteeing us a profit.
Leave the lower classes to guard the planet against any hostile alien takeover.
They can stare up at us with their binoculars for entertainment.
We do after all have to keep Earth...if only for sentimental reasons.

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03/17/2016

Posted on 03/17/2016
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Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Ken Harnisch on 03/17/16 at 01:27 PM

Kinda neat to look back on the younger, fiery Chris Sorrenti and see the young firebrand behind the thoughtful poet. We need more such glimpses, I think, to see in totality the evolution of the man.

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