The Earth Day Sonnet
for Taylor Swift
by John Kendall Hawkins
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It crept up, like the hamburglar. Earth Day! Who knew?
It seems like years since it's been here. (George Harrison).
How I forget again -- why it's embarrassin';
and my chronic negligence gives me food to chew.
Why am I always forgettin' about Blue Earth?
I should be talkin' rainbow birds up in the sky.
Instead, I'm all, Look out. here comes mud in your eye,
me jungling along with my jiggly fast-food girth.
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Maybe if a fascist kicked me in the asshat
once in a while, I would be less egocentric
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