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i get a little confused about questions of reducing petroleum dependency that i read on my plastic laptop with all its plastic components inside and its power cable insulated in plastic connected to the plastic outlet in the wall that's connected to a wire by a splice that has little plastic caps on each of the twists, connected to the net via a plastic wireless router with lots of plastic bits inside it that's on a shelf beneath a giant plastic printer next to some plastic trays filled with paper.
if you look to your left from in front of the printer you see a deck with some plastic furniture on it. directly beneath that my car is parked. it is black and yesterday the hamilton high school lacrosse team attempted to wash it but did so in a way that basically moved the dirt around and in the process changed it from being ambient grime to actually prominent streaks with the result that i shall soon drive the car---and use some of the fifty dollars worth of gas i put in yesterday---to a mechanical carwash facility chock-a-block full of plastic and other petroleum derived materials.
on the way i shall pass a supermarket. there's no point in walking into the building and starting to enumerate the various distribution systems that explain how the various commodities in their funny plastic packaging arrived on the shelving units (plastic), and even less to start listing the various production processes that produced the commodities that entered into the distribution systems or the trucks and ships and so on that connect them and the petroleum-based materials they all use and the distribution systems that explain the simultaneous presence of all the components in those trucks and ships and the manufacturing processes that enable those systems to have commodities to move and so on and so on.
there's just a riot of things and processes.
it makes me a little dizzy.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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