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PLASTIC FANTASTIC?

The Gladstone Arms / London

10 Jun 2019

AMBER MANAGEMENT

as the light dimmed

we saw them

simulating body tissue

spinning protons

calibrating voxels

murdering ants on the doorstep


phantoms

levitating balls of chrome

secreting pineapple slices

in Archimedean solids

of paraffin wax


in the early phase

of sticky darkening

sugariness and degradation

we remained moulded in

plastic denial syndrome


decoupling from fossil feedstocks

as the ethanol kicked in

we were soon seeing triple


aloft in a Boeing Dreamliner

worth half its weight in plastic

we enjoy

a vinegar whiff

of foam crumble

in coconut oil


resplendent in cellulose nitrate

we recycle Cunard crockery

for deep sea dining

on fish outnumbered

by their own plastic ghosts


there in the museum

there in some unfathomable

double bond formation


Bendy Bunny Benjy

in his tailored suit

declines in a yellowing blow chair

his oxidized ear footloose

in plasticizer migration


unsettled by the twirling

casein knitting needles

of Larry the Lamb

ruing the bright lights of showbiz

warping and cracking

in delambination


and so we shape up

to polymerize our solidarities

for the multidimensional printing of

a cyclic economy

cartoon idealizations

a cyclic economy

fairphone mobilizations

a cyclic economy

the right to repair

a cyclic economy.

©Paul Taylor 2019

Trombone Poetry

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