nearing the restaurant I hear
the boys passing
on bicycles speaking beautiful Spanish entering
i see a lot of people
not prizing some invisible seed of potential
eating hamburgers in striped cotton shirts
feeders of the world take time enough to care for
themselves dress and wash trim hair
and have
their teeth maintained with
sixteen hundred
dollars every month for whom whole cities are
created
lifestyles forged in broken orchards and
subdivided farms perpetuating the coming blight transformation that
may not be reversed
their feeding mouths
around me
swallowing the planet by mistake
not minimizing my own
consumption it becomes clear to me
the most important thing to do is silence advertising
permanently
absolutely totally and at once
Raven