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The Blue Deadpool
Kenichi Matsuo
Irvine, CA
2015, Junior, Creative Writing

Mr. Garcia emptied the contents of the plastic bag with ​Safeway ​branded it. He had no other intended use of the plastic grocery bag and bunched it up in a fist and threw it in the garbage can trying to imitate Michael Jordan. Just as usual, Mr. Garcia put the asparagus first into the fridge then the cabbage and so forth.

Mr. Garcia as usual took out the trash that held banana peels, a rotten apple core, plastic bags, used batteries, and other daily trash. He hastily threw the garbage into the garbage can outside for the Waste Management truck to come.

The driver of the truck, Mr. Alyokhin, finished taking trash from the last block that he was supposed to do. As always, Mr. Alyokhin drove into the Waste Management facility and backed the truck up into the mouth of the rusted gate fence and hit the glowing red button on the dashboard. The truck squealed as it deposited the toxic waste and plastic into the ocean landfill. He drove away to go back home as more trucks line up behind his to do the same. Truck by truck, the landfill got bigger and bigger.

The thousands of plastic bags soon waved a goodbye as they slowly sank to the bottom of the ocean. The plastic bag that Mr. Garcia threw away carried by Mr. Alyokhin joined the rest of the bags splattered glimmered like diamonds and the curious sea creatures that feeds all, ate the plastic looking for food and floated up to the top and never closing their eyes.

Kenichi Matsuo
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Reflection

The prose that was written to show the naked truth about the oceans reveals many things to many people. It shows that every trash that we throw kills more sea creatures. The living sea life mistakes these plastic bags that we throw as food and eats the bait of ecological destruction. Many parts of the oceans in the world that we live in and depend on today is starting to become overfilled with trash and the food that comes from them will disappear. This prose was written to help people realize the damage that landfills are doing today.

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