Sunday, December 05, 2010

plastic bag heaven

plastic bag heaven is being relocated,
it’ll have to move, no doubt.
“there is no going back”
said the Italian minster of the environment.

in January, Italy will be done with them.
not ministers,
only the bags this time.
a giant leap for mankind.

why just the other day
i threw out many bags and wondered,
a thought too large to form,
an idea whose time has come

or will soon, Merry Christmas
and then goodbye bags,
i mean it, at least someone does,
that’s for sure,

it’s the law.
will our world be the same?
what shall we do?
oh my, what'll we put stuff in?

1 comment:

Annie said...

Personally, I think we can still do with paper bags, so long as trees are specifically grown to produce them, and we recycle, unless there is some other environmental consequence I'm not aware of. Too bad, it's the plastic bags and not the ministers, I suppose; but maybe, in this case, if they've come up with a viable alternative, no plastic bags will be a good thing.