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Earth Day in Central Park

5
The future has a full diaper
no one wants to change. 
We avoid each other’s guilty glance
and live with the stench.

We don’t seem to care
that the key to our common home 
is broken in the lock
and the welcome mat is missing.  

Everything is moving so fast 
we can’t keep up
and this damnable heat 
makes us lethargic.

Does that man flying by
on the electric unicycle
have a bird on a leash?

A plastic grocery bag 
blows against my feet.
I start picking up trash.
I need the exercise. 
Photos courtesy of Matt Desiderio and Wiki Commons Media.

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