It's all plastic!

It's all plastic!

Dr Abe V Rotor

Plastic toys morgue Internet

Remnants of childhood's joy and mystery

now in a forgotten cemetery,

So died the laughter, song and fantasy,

of growing up fast to be free.

A flower shop - but which is natural, which is plastic? Internet

Plastic flowers everywhere, how lovely can they get,

crowded in a shop they look cheap though;

Not the pet flower of the Little Prince in his planet,

among the stars the whole night through.

Food in plastic molds in a Hongkong restaurant Internet

Pavlov's conditioned learning,

a tool of consumerism;

culinary art indeed deceiving,

everything looks appetizing.

Potted plastic plants on the sidewalk, HK 2017

Photo by the author.

Warning! Don't touch the plants,

(else you discover they are fake);

make-believe to keep discipline

for peace-and-order's sake.

The author's grandchildren, Markus and Mackie, trek

on Big Buddha Mountain, HK 2017. Photo by the author.

Playing hide-and-seek among the prop roots of the Buddha tree,

Perfect to hide, but where's the thrill,

on discovering it's all imitation, lifeless and still,

of plastic, concrete and steel? ~