{"id":75449,"date":"2020-06-28T06:42:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T10:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=75449"},"modified":"2020-07-05T19:15:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T23:15:16","slug":"the-worlds-an-ashtray-hour-22-prompt-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-worlds-an-ashtray-hour-22-prompt-22\/","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s an Ashtray – hour 22, prompt 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The world\u2019s a giant, sooty ashtray<\/p>\n

holes in walls, with smoke-black stains<\/p>\n

our sins, the earth\u2019s full burning pain<\/p>\n

the trash, we dump in bucket loads<\/p>\n

glass on sidewalks and crushed in roads<\/p>\n

they cut the ground with fractured nodes<\/p>\n

each hole spies a different window<\/p>\n

where shadows lurk, and poisons go<\/p>\n

or ghosts of once a rugged life<\/p>\n

got tired and offed his scathing wife<\/p>\n

then he himself, with stabbed knife<\/p>\n

graffiti it will sometimes be<\/p>\n

the smoking offal of gangs and rings<\/p>\n

drugs, they rot people about<\/p>\n

smacked loves and lives near inside-out<\/p>\n

drunks they wreck the homes and highways<\/p>\n

then steal the lives of others\u2018 days<\/p>\n

pollution, the final slow demise<\/p>\n

as it kills our land and skies<\/p>\n

and construction, always promising trees<\/p>\n

I know that I will never see<\/p>\n

land finally will a desert be<\/p>\n

and burning, screaming volcanoes<\/p>\n

will torch what\u2019s left in fiery throes<\/p>\n

when ashes cool and finally mend<\/p>\n

creation can begin again.<\/p>\n

-Sandra Johnson<\/p>\n

(Muse photo courtesy of Unsplash)<\/p>\n

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