it's not easy being not green
a green house looming
a green door
a green monk
green texts and chants
a green fire
a green tongue, darting
green birds
a green sky
only the trees
not green
the trees begging
in the streets
for chlorophyll
--Ross Balcom
Poet's Notes: The title of this poem is a play on the title of a popular song, "It's Not Easy Being Green."
Editor’s Note: I admit I misread the title at first and was finding the poem a bit tedious until the end with the begging trees. Now I have this vision of an albino Kermit T. Frog sitting in the bleached branches of an albino Treebeard. How deliciously horrifying!
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