The Seedlings Were the First to Go!
Written by Sophia-Louise von Wrangell and Sky Myers. Paintings by: SvW
Last week in the Plaza Maxima in Earth’s polluted capital, Agoraphobia, the GREEN gathered in thousands for an unofficial protest. Trees, shrubs, grasses, vegetables and flowers among many other Flora, uprooted themselves and marched defiantly and courageously from the green areas, along the avenues and streets into the city center, forming a splendorous impressionistic parade.
The higher echelons of Flora invited Fauna to join the march, but Fauna declined the honor, claiming its members were too weak and frightened to be of any good.
Disappointed but understanding, and further fueled by this pathetic reality they linked limbs and chanting, “We want ozone! We want ozone!” proceeded with their quest for life.
The peaceful procession turned into an angry mob as they passed the new advertisements for Exxon (“Protecting your Environment”), Ortho (“Keeping your lawn Green”) and McDonalds (Feeding the World”).
Upon reaching the steps of the capital the GREEN activists began to suffer from the Greenhouse Effect, a reaction of the government against the unsanctioned protest.
Between the conflagration and the Inferno, disoriented and weakened, the protesters were easy targets for the authorities, who mercilessly sprayed them with equal amounts of agent orange, paraquat, and other effective defoliants.
Sadly, the seedlings were the first to wither and go. Nettles and blackberries came forward to bravely form a thorny wall. Even the delicate roses entwined in the barrier of protection as the others fled in horror. Many died, and few escaped permanent damage. In the end only a few resistant Cannabis plants remained with tattered placards, which read “Freedom for Weed”. Backing them up were thousands of bushes of the indomitable Scotch Broom.