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Apology to the Planet (for when the roaches learn to read)
So we drank all the wine
& we ate all the chocolates
even the ones that no-one wanted
everything's gone
The lid yawns open
the crumpled plastic tongue of the box
licks cardboard wistfully--
all gone
Humans don't do sorry
but if they did
perhaps our planet
would've been
a better place to live
Or was
greedy
all we knew how to be?
Published 22nd Dec 2009
| Edited 9th Nov 2011
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22nd Dec 2009 7:12pm
"even the ones that nobody wanted
have all gone"
Fantastic image of every human's greed; nothing is ever enough anymore & even when you have all you want, you still want more to the extent that it's even ruining the planet. Captures the concept beautifully.
have all gone"
Fantastic image of every human's greed; nothing is ever enough anymore & even when you have all you want, you still want more to the extent that it's even ruining the planet. Captures the concept beautifully.
22nd Dec 2009 9:50pm
And of course humans would never apologise to the planet for their behaviour anyway. Thanks, Arryn.
