New Custom

The Custom in this Time
is to follow Trends,
to create Pretty.
We chase
"New", "New", "New"

which is just beyond our reach.
Our Transient Trends
become Trash.
Landfills become Land-fulls.
No one wants our Trash.
Recycling is big.
Waste now comes back on us.
Righteously, we bring
Glass to Recycling.
Where should Glass go?
It is crushed.
Light's Refraction
makes it Pretty,

our next Adornment.
Trendy Gardeners now use
trendy Broken Glass
as trendy Mulch.
We think we are so smart.
We Humans are
Custodians of Soil.
We do not own Land
but borrow it
from our Children.
Why would we sow
broken Glass
where our Grandchildren
will play Childhood Games,
make Homes,
grow Food?

Whose Half-Baked Idea was this?

What were we thinking?

Or rather,

are we thinking with our

Supposedly Superior Brains?
We need a New Custom.
~~~~
Glinda Crawford, 2008