
THE GREAT GARBAGE PATCH - A POEM
Plastic wrappers, ropes and, lids, Plastic bags and toys for kids Plastic straws and forks and knives, All long to live quite different lives. They dream of tangling birds and whales Of tying up a dolphin’s tail! Or, when broken into bits like peas Ending up as fishes’ teas. Plastics want to join the band Of plastic stuff from every land That’s rolled in currents far from shore, Where they can live for ever more. So don't let plastic things get free Or they will end up in the