The New York Times
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4th October 2016
The City Is Plastic (Published 2016)
The city is plastic. I eat my salad slowly, pick out the cheese and croutons with my fork. A utensil now, later it will be a piece of cracked litter in the back of a Dumpster. All the plastic on the table — the cups, straws, spoons, lid, tray, table top — it’s all trash. And the cucumbers I like best. I imagine growing them in my own garden. No plastic there, just seeds in the ground, a path of gravel around the bends and twists. The spoons remind me of cucumbers, long and heavy with the weight