they found micro-plastics

in all of our food and in the deepest caverns

of the ocean and I don’t know how it got there

but it can’t be good
the ibis are eating nacho cheese Doritos®

on concrete perches by your local petrol station skip

and if you haven’t seen them yet just watch the trailer online with a narration

that ends: coming soon to a 7/11 near you
listen to the greedy honks & maniacal chews

of the much maligned ibis: newfound figurehead for our urban ecology

(sacred bird = sacred meme)
and by the way — Doritos® invented in Disneyland® (coincidence?)

more and more I feel we are living in a cartoon (the eyebrows

are the giveaway)

with the oh so many comic book movies

that make Scorsese cry: this is not cinema

from lower Manhattan balconies or on late night talk show television

or at card games in back rooms somewhere in Little Italy

(and now I am thinking: Doritos® Pizza?)
Doritos® Doritos® Doritos®….‘little gold’ in Spanish

(a poor and ungrammatical translation)
and the ibis lived in wetlands before the micro-plastics and invasive carp species

and I don’t mean to labour the point but goldfish

are a little carp species, which, adopting the Spanish,

we might call: Doritos® of the sea
(coincidence?)