Why the hell are we now perfuming trash bags?

Come on now.

Are you telling me that

on self-destruction

we are just so hell bent.

We compulsively

multiply consumerism’s

chemical footprint.

By mindlessly destroying

with all our toying

Earth’s environment.

We show no

respect for our home.

And we’re overdue

with Earth’s rent.

I wish I could end this one hopeful

be more song less lament.

But we are trading away

the only habitable planet

we even know exists.

In exchange for trash-bags

now featuring a

“Fresh Clean”

chemical scent.

Humanity looks to have ordered hell…

and added on super-sizing.

We’re spending our last days

cooking up chemicals for

refuse-stench disguising.

At least the future smell of

the dead planet will be

slightly less putrefying.

Because marketing companies

now make the trash bags

full of some shit that’s

odor neutralizing.

And yet…

From the quantum of individual

self-sacrificial decisions

hope against hope is arising.

So, I’ll hang up this pen

stop wasting time philosophizing.

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