My ocean science professor drinks 

A 12 oz bottle of Coke Zero every day

Plastic bottle with a red labeled 

text box when I slept through the submission 

dead line calling at 10 post meridiem

Carpe! Bene nulla. mallem dormire

because my roommate won’t shut the freezer 

door swings open when I close 

minded people piss me off but open minds 

the gap at the train station which is how 

do you think my science professor gets to school ?

days are too long, but she tells me life is too 

many pieces of plastic in the ocean it’s turning brown

bubbles trying to burst that lukewarm bottle 

cap in my pocket from last week end 

it with that guy, he’s got no drive 

home from work to sit in class with 

My science professor, who drinks Coke Zero

From a plastic bottle, even though 

There is too much plastic in the ocean.