Day Twenty-nine

Today's words:

Paper bag

Cereal

Noise

Plastic

Fad

Needle

I take my lunch in a brown paper bag.

Sometimes I eat cereal

For dinner. The noise

All around me hurts my head. They say plastic

Never decomposes. And global warming isn't a fad.

It's here now, and that worry pricks like a needle.

But it's like the proverbial needle

In a haystack. And getting a paper bag

At the grocery store is just a fad.

It won't change anything; soon we'll have GMOs in our cereal

As yet another landfill is loaded with plastic

That never goes away. But our efforts are all noise

As long as corporations get away with making a lot of noise

And doing nothing. Yes, I needle

My friends to try, to eschew plastic

At the grocer's and take a paper bag instead.

And buy bulk cereal

To save on packaging. Now there's a new fad.

But to really effect change, these can't be just a fad.

You've got to live them and tune out the noise

Of the naysayers and our own doubts. No cow's milk on my cereal

Please, but now I hear soy is bad too. Another needle

Puncturing my resolve, and a paper bag

Is almost as bad as plastic.

Who ever thought that plastic

Could be bad? It seemed a miracle, quite the fad.

No more worries about a tearing paper bag.

And it's not just noise;

Turns out the stuff is really bad. But I doubt these issues needle

Too many people, as they chew their breakfast cereal

Like placid cows chewing their cuds. Most cereal

Has some of the same ingredients as plastic.

Changing habits is like threading a needle:

You may have to make a few attempts. This can't be a fad.

And that noise

You hear is the tearing of a paper bag.

Oops! Just as multi-grain cereal is a pointless fad,

With no more nutritional value than plastic. It's like white noise

Versus music, or a needle poking through a paper bag.