Eco-friendly should be a 4 letter word

It’s a turning planet that puts seasons on a black market

Slapping price tags willy-nilly

On your delicious fruits and berries

Until springtime becomes synonymous with

Fresh fruit and dusty fandangos

It seems that we have adapted yet again

By making fun little words that mean nothing, like smog and smaze

Doctors on panels and tables and boards telling the harmful risks

Of living in this springtime world, danger of blooming flowers and killer bees

Harmful rays of radiation and breathing chemical particles

And public transit, overflowing with disease

Rebirth only happens once a year, they say, a very volatile time

So we stay in our cool, filtered apartments, eating Frankenberries with soy milk,

Watching the world turn green with envy and we laugh and laugh,

and the world keeps turning