I had no idea how many
plastic bags and plastic debris
go into my garbage daily ~
into my plastic garbage bag.
There are many global issues
that make me angry.
None have touched me
right in my kitchen! like this has.
Seeing pictures of oceans with
plastic bags and plastic debris floating
like forests of kelp waving in the current
angers me. Garbage tossed away mindlessly.
Any gratitude towards convenience has also been tossed away.
I can’t divine which, if any, of my plastic
ends up strangling a turtle or
sickening to death a whale
but I can change my attitude
about what’s really disposable.
“How is the ocean not enraged, swelling -
How is it not furious with grief:
we have drowned it in plastic,
it’s waves are no longer it’s own.”
~ Ashley Asti, The Moon and Her Sisters
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