Day 17 Prompt: Coffee
Title: Seventeen
Shavings of trunk bark and bow are shredded, to make coffee cups and
Each hectare of coffee bean farming requires the uprooting of seventeen hundred trees
Voracious mining companies commit the same crime against nature and
Even with carbon-neutral replanting ten billion trees are lost annually
None of the affected countries and their land-hungry community care
Then neither do those wielding economic power, for
Every decision made is biased by self-interest, to the point where
Eradication of entire species is deemed acceptable and
Notjust the flora and fauna, but indigenous races too
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PoetryFirst, this poetic short story was written for Versification Wattpad Poetry's month-long poetry writing challenge in support of the National Poetry Writing Month NaPoWriMo. It is a series of thirty acrostic poems that will address the current ecolog...
