Both are free, fleeting and colorful,

both are blown helter skelter  

by the wind.  

One evokes wistful   

days of summer,  

and the a child's   

innocent laughter. 

One evokes waste, pollution,   

the despoiling of lives,   

and personal space.   

Is this but a fleeting   

glance of the public   

media’s trend de jour?.  

Or is it a symptom of the    

general malaise that has    

crept over us silently, unseen,    

to ultimately murder us in our    

brainwashed stupor

of mindless consumerism.