Tuesday, I saw grocery cart after grocery cart after grocery cart after grocery cart …
of white plastic bags
roll out of HEB, Seguin, Texas.
(It was on a Tuesday,
but it could have been any day.)
GIVE IT UP!!!
………………………
Wait!
This humble, humbling attempt
at a work of art
for Creekside Poets
in this Lenten season
must be more upbeat.
Even as we enter
into the time of year
we Catholics were to give up even more meat
and to fast & abstain and to adore & pray and do penance,
and spend more time at Masses and Stations of the Cross …
Hell! … Let’s celebrate!
Let’s give it up
for the local, regional, state, national,
and international politicians and bureaucrats,
oftentimes in a limelight unasked for,
but truly attempting to sacrifice
for the Common Good.
Let’s give a robust and high peace sign
for the true Peacemakers.
Let’s really give it an up
for the teachers
who humbly learned along with us
and spent hours working
to help those in the middle, at the bottom, and even at the top
to learn to read and to write in a STEAM sort of way
what should be learned.
For teachers,
peacemakers,
politicians,
farmers and ranchers big and small
and farmworkers,
health care workers,
scientists,
journalists,
coders, IT specialists, programmers, systems analysts,
engineers,
builders and transporters,
bankers,
lawyers,
artists and entertainers, …
poets … ,
white collar workers
and blue,
past immigrants and new,
blacks, browns, yellows, pinks and blues.
Give them all a big ol’ up and healthy applause …
‘cause we ALL need it.
………………………….
And NOW we’ll work on ridding ourselves
of all this damn plastic!
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http://www.paulpeaceparables.com/2018/09/06/a-sick-world-of-plastic/
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