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Mything Thursday
(in pandemic time)
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There are few untouched
Places on Earth
For when we see the,
We have touched them
They are changed
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I wonder if the virus
Might be made of plastic,
A natural invention
And response to our touch
We needed plastic
In the war,
Then its convenience took over
Making things
And we blew it into the sky
From our factories
We could wish for coal
And dirt and rust and oil
In the air
Though they have needed
Cleaning, too
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To places needing cleaning,
There seem to be two
Options: clean them
Or ignore them
Throw a carpet over it
Go to another room
And finally another place
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Or do a half-done job
A sloppy job
Of making do
Because there is no profit in
Cleaning up
Except for cleaning companies
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So let’s have cleaning companies!
People who know how
To fix a world
Rearrange it, replace broken
Parts, dust everything
So we might move again
Into timeworn places
Inhabitable again
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Know how to rebuild
And build new
So we don’t poison ourselves
So much, again
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C L Couch
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Photo by Antoine GIRET on Unsplash
Mountain of rubbish and garbage on the beach by the sea[.]
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