Arlene Corwin writes

A Faster Cleanup

 

I’ve watched the documentaries,

Read the news and watched TV.

I wish I weren’t ordinary -

More pedestrian than I would wish to be,

Surrendering to traps of

Entertainment for diversion -

All those mediocre pastimes I accuse the herd

Of needing, and I shan’t excuse my nerdy being

Leaning on that chestnut ‘will is strong but flesh is weak’.

So before you puke I’ll speak

And say, we need a faster cleanup.

 

Plastic on the ocean bottoms,

Record heats and floods and rain.

Deserts spreading, Arctic’s melting: symptoms

Of the odium of inhumane

Expansions everywhere you look:

The Book of Crooked Modern-day,

Modernity’s last supper.

So, we need a faster cleanup

Mr Trump - and all the others.