Gone Green Poem by Joseph DeMarco

They ask me
'If I'm going green? '
If my thumb happens to be colored
with the same filament
If I happen upon a tree in the woods
Would I hug it
or maybe do more perverted things to it
like smack its trunk from behind
and make it BARK
I reply
'I haven't gone green.'
I am green
I always have been
They've tried to teach me differently
'With religion and sex and T.V.'
They've tried to brainwash me
They've promised me a big house
And a shiny car
They told me my life would be easier than any humans
in existence
and all it would cost me was my soul
I didn't listen to them
I don't
I never have
I'll have Crypt-tonight
in my pocket
And even though I'm happy
Later, I'll be feeling glad
As though Superman himself
Flew backwards around the Earth
And slowed time
So we could
live in this moment
forever