The most noxious landfill is language.
Books are polluted; libraries, dump sites.
Due to toxic levels of pathetic fallacy
Bookstores have been closed by the Board of Health.
All reading, boycotted by Greenpeace.
Why must a cloud be forever lonely?
Why must the sea be always cruel?
Our books are fairy-tales for grownups
With magical forests of sad birds, evil snakes,
Happy flowers and gloomy trees,
Where we sit in the melancholy shade,
Ourselves the center of the universe
And seldom consider the rivers of refuse
Created by culture’s industrial waste.