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Plastic Fruit

from Cons of Mod Cons by James Hickey

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Plastic Fruit
28.7.2013
Plastic hangs in the trees like fruit.

It is the kind grown in the fertilised soil of unethical consumption,
Mulched by the plastic generation.
But who will harvest this fruit?
The future people who will learn how to eat it?
The next-gen birds whose metabolism will cater
For the gut-strangling strands of indigestible poly-carbons?
Those fish who will evolve the ability to convert take-away coffee lids
Into scales of immortality,
Only killed when they are caught by bears with a taste
For anything from a two dollar shop.
And the fake plastic fruit on the kitchen table
Will be consumed by school kids who are able
To bite into the mal-nutritious doppelgangers.
And the dog won’t bring the ball back unless it’s organic,
Because the poly-vinyl acetate
Will make the K-9 salivate
Causing it to masticate
Every last Spalding-ace.
The cat will feast on plastic toy mice and milk bottles diced
Into sardine-sized morsels
And plastic milk bottle-lid droppings
Will lie beneath kitti-litter scrapings.
And those cows where the plastic milk bottles come from
Will chew their cud on astro-turf
And their four-chambered stomachs
Will form the production line
For all the single-use forks and knives
Required by this take away life.
The plastic clouds will send down a cacophony
Of every once-off object we will ever need
We will replace the sun with a disco ball
Which we will throw away when the batteries run low
For no one will know
How to think anymore
For our brains will have become
Solid...resin…globules…housing…a single…plastic…gold fish
That never learns from its mistakes.
And the plastic fruit will hang on the dead tree’s bow
Until it slowly, slowly breaks.

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from Cons of Mod Cons, released October 11, 2019
Keyboard - Adrian Whitehead

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James Hickey Australia

James Hickey was a programed performer at the Numeralla Folk Festival (NSW) and the Party in the Paddock Festival (TAS) in early 2018. He has been performing in Adelaide and Melbourne consistently since 2012. He completed a 12 date tour of Australia’s east coast in 2016 and a 20 date tour of Europe in 2014. ... more

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