plastic v plaster

i was in practice when

there were still plaster casts

so, i got to work on the soggy mess

created by a fractured-legged

athlete who could not wait

for his limb to heal before

water-skiing again

so, i am not down-playing

the many advantages of plastic

except that again we have overdone

a good thing to the point of inhaling

bits of the stuff, setting islands of it

loose in our oceans and using

it as barriers between

our sense of touch

and nature

in all, perhaps, not total gain