There is a clichéd pit, the avocado
spooned green flesh accessed
The seed optioned for the refuse bin
or environmental conditions
Synthesized for water, sprouting
and then soil available
To produce life from life, the
mathematics of taking notice
Of opportunity from within a moment
and arrangement of resources
Gardened and procured into a stage
of consciousness
To comprehend the setting for an
empathetic taste to craft presence
In the bubbling river of a tongue to
swashbuckler cheeks rounding
Evaluating the dilemma of being a
lifeform, a human in this experiment
To suffer the exhilaration of base
material for guacamole
Inconveniently and not so subtly
aware of the truth
Of the labor and energy chains that
brought one Mexican grown plant
Into American jowls wrestling with
mileage and Equator and icecap melt rates
Gasoline and solar credits, CAFO
lots and deforestation acreages
Smuggled narcotics and lobbyists
for what the sun grows and concrete mows
The stock price of global national
product delivery systems
Lake Chad and Greenland, oceanic
temperature current ribbons wrapping
Coastal water rise and Shanghai,
Manhattan, Miami and the Ganges
Billions and the glacial Nepalese
melt-off for the that water-order
The thermostat and the cilantro
that tastes like soap to some avoiding the dish
Ten for ten dollars at the local
market the second of January New Orleans
Talked to my neighbor from Ghana
how the land was rainforest
Mining companies and the mom and
pops shoveling the surface
Animals and Darfur and Niger with no
lake to drink
St. Louis flooded Mississippi, at
least they might blow the levees
If Baton Rouge were to tip before
the Crescent City
Always counting on someone lower on
the poles
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