Poly got us good

Plastic is our new birth rite 

Every grandchild inherits Poly as their surname 

What started out as a species of polymers 

Became a forever family of followers

Polypropylene, polystyrene, polyethylene

Poly loves pockets

Malleable, durable, flexible. We didn’t think of convenience until we drowned in options packaged in poly’s chemical compounds 

Poly likes one night stands, walks on the beach, hangs in gutters. 

Black plastic bag from the bodgea covers the Doritos chip bag goes into the mans polyester pocket then tossed on concrete, kicked to the curb, pushed to the sewer grate, good thing it rained, through the pipe to river, estuary to ocean, swallowed by sperm whale 

Poly gets around

Travels to sea turtle in the Galapagos

Albatross in Midway Atoll Island 

Dolphin in the Pacific 

Krill in the Caribbean

690 marine species contaminated 

Poly kills enough to call it a pandemic 

But there’s no mask to cover our litter covering the coral 

Microbeads are in our cosmetic cover girl

How many micro plastics have you digested?

Only 114 years old and yet 46,000 pieces of plastics per every square mile of ocean

Plastic is a virus with no vaccine 

We buy it every day unknowingly 

Poly got us good

Remember wood?

Remember products not of plastic?

Remember we existed for centuries without it?