Subscribe to Toylit

Showing posts with label garbage floe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garbage floe. Show all posts

Saturday, January 01, 2011

The Golden Year or Two [Guest News Poem by Jack Granath, January 1, 2011]

The Golden Year or Two [Guest News Poem by Jack Granath, January 1, 2011]
By Jack Granath

After forty-five years of work
in a manufacturing plant,
I finally retired
to the Floating Island of Plastic.

I’ve got a beach chair,
a supply of disposable
novels, and earphones
made of leatherette—
whatever that is—
a cooler for my cola,
and a collection of stuffed
birds on crucifixes. I bask
in what my doctor calls

“the enemy,” synthetic
beach togs revealing a grilled-cheese
tan beneath grizzled chest hair.
I’ve earned this. My wife
Evangeline would have loved it,
had she lived.

And I’ve got the Internet.
I’m a gentleman scholar now
(from the Greek for “leisure”)
and know that plastic comes from
plastikós, from plássein: to
shape or mold. I’m shaping it,
Angie, if only by watching it go.


Jack Granath is a librarian in Kansas City. His website is www.jackgranath.com





Return to Toylit
Subscribe to Toylit

Monday, October 11, 2010

Trash Cycle [Today's News Poem, October 11, 2010]

Trash Cycle [Today's News Poem, October 11, 2010]

Elsewhere, they're landfilling
Lots for the offices:
Lead in the firmament
Sweating the excesses
Deeper than rivulets,
Under the glamorous
Surface of glossiness.
Closing the aperture,
Snapping the elements
Shut, with a fiberglass
Shield as the leftovers
Sprout up as carriers
Bearing the heaviest
Metals: the flowers of
Chromium, mercury.
Likewise its counterpart
Demonstrates streamlining.
Empty aluminum
Can with a colorful
Sham: who can emulate
Joy much less paint it on
Drinks? Is it currency?

"Hungarian police today arrested the managing director of the aluminum company behind the spill of toxic sludge that killed eight people, drove dozens from their homes and threatened to pollute the Danube River."
—Phil Cain, The Christian Science Monitor, October 11, 2010
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2010/1011/Hungary-arrests-executive-connected-to-red-sludge-spill

Return to Toylit
Subscribe in a reader

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Welcome to the Rest of Your Life [Twitter Found Poem April 15, 2010]

Welcome to the Rest of Your Life [Twitter Found Poem April 15, 2010]

Re: tapyram Johnny_Monster Shemarking kirstygallacher rudebuoy82 lebomski BreakingNews fuzzytypewriter gr8greenjobs gr8greenjobs b_ez08 LilCassieMayne markmorford greendreamin ChemicalJobcast jamiemcfly itsAdrianaYahhh EarthNL mtilney emergencyrain BBPR ForexFundament gilbertbuckjr algore

#WelcometoNigeria where a guy is fighting
in d car and a hawker comes and says "buy your knives"

welcome to your #job
Maintenance Manager - Chemical Plant
a World leader in the manufacture
of mixed color barrier
rancid plastic garbage patch.

welcome Home
The Ocean Has Fish Shit in It.
a lot of fish sperm just floatin around...
Atlantic ocean rancid plastic garbage patch
to complement the Pacific. It's called recycling.
welcome Home
where Leaders come from '70s Tomorrows World.
where looting the Planetary treasury is errr young thugz (agbero) dream
where ICELAND VOLCANO DUST
manmade climate change & '70s Tomorrows World today
is errr young thugz (agbero) dream

welcome to your #job
Get-Rich-Quick with mixed color
massive, rancid Planetary plastic garbage



Support independent publishing: Buy this book on Lulu.

Subscribe in a reader