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Shattered Earths quiet weeping end reveals ecofeminist consumerisms global plastic cost, igniting…
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From ULR
Issue 7 – Environment
So Many Things
The relentless accumulation of possessions smothers our homes and environment, revealing consumerism's overwhelming global cost
June 15, 2022
What would you like for Christmas?
It’s a problem to decide
what to buy for the one who has everything!
There’s a birthday coming up,
what would you like?
It’s a problem to decide
what to buy for the one who has everything!
But now even our special things
are taking us over
growing like triffids
and suffocating us
spewing from our homes,
first to fill plastic bags
and then the land,
the seas,
the air
we breathe.
Too many things.
It’s all too much.
First published in Oddball, December 22, 2021
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Lynn White
Lynn White lives in north Wales. Her work is influenced by issues of social justice and events, places and people she has known or imagined. She is especially interested in exploring the boundaries of dream, fantasy and reality. She was shortlisted in the Theatre Cloud ‘War Poetry for Today’ competition and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and a Rhysling Award. Find Lynn at: https://lynnwhitepoetry.blogspot.com and https://www.facebook.com/Lynn-White-Poetry-1603675983213077/