Plastic

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Empty
until filled with
need
empty
until filled with
trash
full to the brim
hefting weight
floating
in the wind
with no
control
just moving
towards
that inferno
taking more
and
more
and
more
knowing
that
existence
as a
plastic
bag
alone
is destroying the
world
destroying
life
trying
to stay
same
in a world
never
accepting
and never able
to
disappear
completely
yet used
again
and
again
and
again
by hands
and filled again
and
again
and
again
knowing their
material
is so thin
yet taking
more
and
more
and
more
and crumpling
to will
people
forming
to will
and stretching
more
and
more
until

rip.

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