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Judging Hypocrisy

Look at you
Oh so fashionably accessorised
In a demi-couture package
In your environmentally conscious style
Playing out ecological homage.

But bright red plastic buttons tinge your dress
iPhone resplendent in its fluoro yellow cover 
Television screen sized sunglasses
Your hair infused with streaks of amber.

Revolutionary or is it maybe avant-garde?
Your visionless voice on sustainable ecology.
Little chance dirt would have graced your nails
Nouveau magazines guiding your ideologies. 

The empowerment that must come with driving 
Urban tractor, fuel efficiency rating and bling
Billowing air-conditioning making it bearable
Jingling bangles as you swap CD’s to sing.

Small pity the organic shop is across town
But the drive is so definitely bearable. 
Cling filmed ethical food on polystyrene  
The Emperors clothes so plausibly venerable.

You disdain the smog of a wood fuelled fire
Preferring the heat that occurs from a pump
Oblivious appliances are fed by a coal powered station
Comfortable the broken hair dryer goes to the dump.

But I’ll always admire your self-serving tenacity
Because with candid conviction you’re the first to judge me.

* A wee dabble and play

Copyright © Mark Woods | Year Posted 2016

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John Lawless Date: 5/28/2016 8:56:00 AM This is great Mark. I used to horrify the kids at the high school "environmental" clubs with less poetic but just as pointed observations. Login to Reply Mark Woods Date: 5/29/2016 4:35:00 AM Cheers John, I must admit I do enjoy sparring with the environmental brigade. They mean well, and I understand that, but sometimes they just have a lack of understanding of the facts.

Eileen Manassian Date: 4/27/2016 3:27:00 PM That's a smart hard hitting write, Mark. Yes, hypocrisy is rampant. I'm sorry I've lost touch with you for a bit. I'm glad to read this piece. Hugs Login to Reply Mark Woods Date: 4/28/2016 1:16:00 AM It takes two to tango and I have been melancholic for a while, so it's probably I that should be apologising. Hopefully with winter approaching here I can get a zing back in my step, get back into reading and being a bit perkier, Then I just need to learn how to write... lol.. somethings are impossible!

Jan Allison Date: 4/27/2016 8:24:00 AM Love the sarcasm here Mark - some lines made me smile but others made me sad - fabulous final couplet:-) hugs Jan xx Login to Reply Mark Woods Date: 4/28/2016 1:05:00 AM Thank you Jan, sometimes an idea grabs you and you feel compelled to write it down. Hopefully it keeps the grey matter ticking over!!

Lin Lane Date: 4/27/2016 6:04:00 AM You wee dabble summarized the role of a diva very well. But who am I to judge? lol Well done, Mark. Login to Reply Lin Lane Date: 4/27/2016 9:19:00 AM If that root is still growing, fertilize it, Mark. Mark Woods Date: 4/27/2016 6:40:00 AM lol, Those with no guilt can cast the first stone. It was just a subject that tickled my fancy. Not my normal sort of write here (with the exception of Escaping Humanity), but my early writing before the soup was coloured heavily with sarcasm. Maybe I'm going back to my roots.