Pollutionpoem #4 March 31

hercules didn’t start it of course only publicized it — running a river through the augean stables’ filth so that all the dirt and droppings were swept downstream chicago was canny to send their fecal foulings to the mississippi via the sag canal else lake michigan would now be a cesspool we’ve gone on treating our planet like a sewer though and don’t have any greek god to blast our trash into outer space anyway it’s a cesspool up there too with some about to fall on our heads like chicken little you know don’t you that rotating in the atlantic’s sargasso sea is a continent of floating plastic those water bottles we don’t need shampoo aunt jemima mattresses baggies you name it some will disintegrate so that the food chain can eat it fish crabs plankton and do themselves in as for our atomic sewage it won’t break down sure nevada’s fighting but who cares about nevada that’s a throwaway state we just don’t want any hot trains tootling through our yards to get there though its already pluming across the pacific

© 2011 Jacqueline Jackson