Monday, February 14, 2011

Going Green...In My Dreams


Not going to waste any more precious fossil fuel on those many unnecessary daily trips
Finishing up with dumping my tons of thoughtless but nearly permanent CO2 emissions
No more dirty coal will over-warm my over-sized, un-insulated, leveraged dream home ever again
Won’t be polluting 200 gallons of good clean drinking water each and every day anymore

Won’t rip up any more productive farmland for shoddy, cloned, convenience strip malls
The oil on my driveway will stop leaking into that little stream every time it rains
The plastic bags I only used once will no longer choke our overburdened and leaching landfills
Won’t be so quickly casting all that devilish chinese shrink wrap into the closest dumpster

Wont be eating any more grains and vegetables impregnated with toxic runoff chemicals
No longer buying food that’s over-stimulated by oil-based pesticides and fertilizers
Done gumming pasty white bread which was watered by draining irreplaceable fossil aquifers
Stopped consuming proprietary, sterile, genetically-modified, corporate cereal crops

Wont be smashing glass bottles on rocks just to hear the noise they make while breaking
No more thoughtlessly tossing aluminum cans into the gaping mouths of garbage pails
Done casually flipping plastic containers aside the very moment they are emptied
Stopped thoughtlessly dumping out all that so-called waste paper I don’t want or need

Won’t be discarding much more cheap broken plastic shit from Asia without a second thought
Had my last freshly poisoned fruits shipped in from the far-off southern hemisphere
Wont be buying gas to fill my ATV that helps support terrorists in lands 10,000 miles away
Not paying any more taxes to have them outsource the war on terror there instead of here

Done kicking back and watching as we kill off the noble wandering albatross and dolphins
Not going to totally ignore the vanity poaching of the elephants and the tigers anymore
No longer going to let the salmon and the orcas be driven to extinction on my watch
Stopped driving up the price of sushi that is finishing off the magnificent bluefin tuna

Done sitting mutely as illiterate fools hoarsely destroy the living desert surface
Will no longer remain quiet as our wasteful recreation despoils the inland waters
Not continuing to wave politely to fat tourists shouting from atop noisy ATVs
Finished making excuses for loud smoking snowmobiles chasing game and littering

Wont be calling greedy shortsighted developers patriotic entrepreneurs anymore
No longer think energy policy is in my interest despite their smirking political assurances
Stopped believing that social progress emerges from politically polarized paralysis
Quit swallowing the repeated diatribes of artificial media conglomerate puppets

Hopping off the treadmill that I always ran as I looked forward to vacations I can’t even remember
Coming clean deep inside without the help of their evil-smelling embalming chemicals
Going completely green at last, without any overpriced and wasteful coffin: Yeah right!
Finally stopped making any carbon footprint at all. For I shall move no more forever

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