Title:	Warders, Plastic People and Recycling
Author:	Codey			Narrator:	Blue Ben W.
Kind:	Poem	Type:	MP3	Time:	00:02:40	Size:	2.44 MB

Warders, Plastic People and Recycling

a poem by Codey ~ 2005-05-04

• Plastic people with plastic thoughts,
• awaiting new incarnations.
• With baited breath and mouths agape,
• they welcome the latest innovations.
• The newest must surely be better,
• so in with the new and out with the old.
• They worship the latest creation,
• recycled and squeezed from the mold.
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• There are those who, in pursuit of power,
• seek to become our warders.
• They will say whatever we want to hear,
• to gain new plastic supporters,
• who, in turn, to avoid having to think for themselves,
• play a game of follow the leaders.
• How can they pull themselves out of the mud
• if they're following bottom feeders?
•  
• Our warders see things in black or white,
• blinded to other colors.
• Seeing only the good in their ideas,
• and only the bad in others'.
• But in this quest, are they forgetting,
• that, at the end of the day,
• there's no such thing as pure black or white,
• there are only shades of gray?
•  
• Our warders may be polar opposites,
• advocates and adversaries,
• and in their quest for personal power,
• say and do what they feel is necessary.
• They think their ideas and thoughts,
• will solve the problems of all mankind.
• No matter how twisted the solution
• or the problem so undefined
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• Are all the ideas they espouse,
• really totally new,
• or are they merely recycled
• emerging in a different hue?
• Aren't they the same old problems,
• recycled in new variations?
• And aren't they the same old answers,
• recycled in new combinations?