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CHANGE

We spill our coffee and reach for the paper towels

We toss tons upon tubs of aluminum cans with the trash each hour

We turn lights on in the middle of the day when the brightest beacon is all we need

We stay glued to televisions evening in and morning out

ANd don't even listen to what they're saying

We sure hear it in the background

Of our cell phone chats and screaming brats

Need Need Need

Is all they say

Day after day

WHy must we need these things so badly

It takes more effort to get ********* and stupid

Than to peacefully sit

And think

About anything in particular

And nothing at the moment

Or something in time

But we do it anyways

Week and week and weak

ANd we wake up the next morning and toss the cans

In a plastic bag

WHich we throw in a bigger can

Which gets picked up by this rolling thundering truck of a thing

That burns more gas than a speedboat

Which is what we're all riding through this life

Rather than paddling down a gentle brook

In a hollowed out tree

Oh wait

We cut all of those down to make more things

Like post it notes we use once

And then toss in another metal can

With another plastic bag

Which as you may guess

Goes on and on in this excessive

And perpetual cycle of total waste

Those trees make pieces of plywood

Which kids paint designs on

And toss ***** back and forth

into more plastic cups

When we could just set our own glasses

Around the place in random spots

And they don't even need to be cups

They could be fishbowls

And you find a small item that does not need to be a ping pong ball it could be a lil toy lion or a seashell or a miniature book

Or an acorn

In fact

Why do we even have houses in the first place

It doesn't rain that often

And when it does

You might as well just climb under a tree

Or duck into a cliff

Or be ******* resourceful

And find a natural solution

Stop buying bag after bag after bag of plastic party cups

Take the ones you already have and make someting fun

You could use them to play a game where you build a palace

By balancing the cups and making walls and such

You can do that with anything you have in your house or outside or wherever you are

Find the fun in things

Think about the infitine number of things you could do with each item you see

We should just sort through our dumps and take evertyhgin and make it into something useful

Stop resource production completely

And live naturally.

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