feeding our children plastic
David Attenborough’s “Our Planet II”
toddler albatrosses on remote island
fluff feathers amidst bottles and jars
plastic shapes that keep them afloat
to travel on currents throughout
our world, splinter in pieces we l
like the parent birds, then devour or
in our ignorance, feed our children
starving us, and them, of life
David has documented our self
destruction for decades and often
suggests ways we can turn toward
health, but plastic and immediate gain
obviously hold greater appeal