A bauble of hot air
drifts upward for each of
the 120 million pines
cut and consumed,
costumed and used
for a couple of days
to spark up the inner human firework.
Underneath lies depletion of soil,
landmasses to control trees with
chlorothalonil, atrazine, simazine, glyphosate,
hexazinone, carbaryl, chlorpyrifos, and dimethoate,
which ablaze with cancer, hormonal disruption, neurotoxicity, organ damage, reproductive defects and asthma.
The party finishes off in a post-festive burning
that blast up the heat.
And the snowball effect rolls on.
– Ho, ho, ho