Going Green

(Or my preachy Hallmarky-card
contribution
for this year's Blog Action Day
for the Environment,
October 15--it's still 11:26 p.m.,
so I still beat the deadline! hah!)


Last year (or was it two years ago?),
green was the new pink in fashion.

now there's
something green
for everything that isn't:

black is the new green
for web surfers,
smokers can rejoice
with organic cigarettes.
male voyeurs even have
an environmentally-friendly FHM issue.

wanton consumers tote
eco-friendly shopping bags,
mining companies
have green technologies
to bore into mountains,
war economies
have environmentally-friendly bombs,
fuel-guzzling Western luxury cars
can bathe in bio-diesel
squeezed from the guts
of Third World toddlers
howling in haciendas.

so many things green
for realities that are not.

sometimes
we forget
that green
is not about
dollars
but really about
land to till
water for all
air and freedom
flames burning
for justice.

Green is
not about "changing the world"
in little ways
for big people.

Green is
changing the world
in big ways

for little people.

Sometimes,
Going green means seeing red.