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