Sunday, August 30, 2020

Timericks from stories in today's New York Times.

 




Confronting a climate crisis that threatens the fossil fuel industry, oil companies are racing to make more plastic. But they face two problems: Many markets are already awash with plastic, and few countries are willing to be dumping grounds for the world’s plastic waste.

The industry thinks it has found a solution to both problems in Africa.


In Africa the nations find a campaign that is drastic

to put away organic things and only buy what's plastic.

And that ain't all they've got to face; as plastic turns to litter,

the jungle's full of styrofoam, which makes the monkeys bitter.

People are not buying gas, so Big Oil pushes vinyl;

as plastic bags hang from palm trees -- and that is pretty final.



Ayahuasca, a vomit-inducing hallucinogenic brew, draws thousands of people each year — including former soldiers — to jungle retreats that have become an unlicensed and unregulated mental health marketplace.

When my mental health decays

I can still find better ways

dealing with my psychic fits

than a drug that gives me s***s.

Jungle humbug, so it seems,

peddles snake oil's ancient dreams.

All you need to cure cracked head

is a book, some bucks, and bed.



New Yorkers Are Fleeing to the Suburbs: ‘The Demand Is Insane’


The suburbs are a lonely place

where no one knows your name.

The lawns kept green and pristine,

or it's ridicule and shame.

I'd rather be a prisoner

in some low dungeon cell

than ev'ry stinking weekend

have to deal with dead cow smell.



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