Plastic Paradise
Time is ticking for whooping cranes,
the buffalo and prairie dogs.
For their losses outweigh their gains;
displaced by cattle, sheep, and hogs.
The elephant and the blue whale
may share the fate of the dodo.
For their lives are now endangered;
like the dragons of Komodo.
Alligators and crocodiles;
tread the fringes of extinction.
And the California condor's
future hangs on its distinction.
Seal pups are slaughtered for their fur;
otters for the fish they've eaten.
And the lions and tigers left,
are routinely shot and beaten.
In sanitized utopias,
we plant the occasional tree.
But in our plastic paradise,
there are no wild creatures to see.
Copyright © Emile Pinet | Year Posted 2015
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