Poems
by KJ Hannah Greenberg
Mackerel and Chocolate Spread
Dont eat mackerel and chocolate spread,
Before bed, even if pregnant, especially
If not.
Compounding weird foods results not only
In familial fleering, but also in psychedelic
Nightmares.
Its not that two-headed wildebeests are
Problematic as much as that losels claim
Real estate.
No one gets hanker sores from imagined
Paramours. Rather, its their cruses, heps
That prove hallucinatory.
Better to nibble at cookies, swallow tepid
Milk, take hot baths, than to fall to deliria
Sourced from fish and fats.
Cogs and Spindles
plus fresh fasteners cause unfortunate torsion amongst sea babies.
Our pollutants oughtnt to trap walruses, dolphins, otherwise fish.
Whats more, it remains inscrutable that such carelessness hastens
Death among seals, turtles, whales, jellyfish, seabirds, also octopi.
After all, canteens, utensils, straws, chow wrappers must be kept
On land, away from innocent scales, fins, flippers, protuberances.
Our toxic, plastic broth, strewn amid the oceans five gyres cant
Be shared with faultless species, creatures bracing the ecosystem.
Marine demises should be natural, not synthetic, should be found
Under seaweed, upon sand, nearby crabs, not clad by fishing nets,
Discarded soda cans, beer bottles, human halbiments, hoved over
Death rolls, else asphyxiation, perhaps alimentary poisoning, fear.
Yet, whilst creatures of the deep require arbitrium, rely on bipeds
Profundity, theyre doomed. Not merely species or entire habitats,
But, similarly, civilizations, continue tainted by status quo actions.
Todays none too soon to rescue briny wildlife, to heal our waters.
A Great Deal of Study
Meditation and self-discipline need to explicate,
To deepen understandings of domains stemming
From dominant deficits. Despite diverse reasons
For our dearth of security, most folks depend on
Pretense.
Encompassing such efforts requires diligent stabs
At rationale meant to elsewise elucidate scholarly
Behavior as operates behind outer or manipulable
Forces. Alternatively, banter fetches no personal
Happiness.
Consider, analytic gears cannot adequately apprise
Attention doled out to the masses. The elite protest
The quota of foci concerned with traits or situation,
Models springing from heads, serving as unnatural
Generations.
However, per existing interactions, scarce folks fasten
On highlighting shortfalls of acknowledgments given
To any plebeians. Amongst most entitled, displeasure
Remains plentiful, likewise, satisfaction fuels distinct
Moments.
Time, energy, plus growth constraints, indifference,
Disbelief, even censorship, retribution, and isolation
Underwrite aristocrats lack of emphasis on sharing
Goodness. Blue skies never meant centuries sans
Precipitation.
After all, divisions among echelons instigate principal
Conceptualizations, maps that specify, likewise orient.
These tool could be accessed by working-class people.
Walls continue to exist, nonetheless, for supporters of
Fear.
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