You are killing orangutans!

“You are killing orangutans if you buy these products!”
said the title of the video and
I found it really cruel that
it had to make me laugh while watching dying monkeys.

The absurdity
of the internet
the whole world’s
slow burn of shit knocks
on my door every day
                                 all day
through videos and speech, through ads
                                                     and media role-play.

I was walking home,
November sleet.
Something caught my eye in the
Greek-Italian restaurant
(olive oil, statues and all).
The world got me again,
                                I thought,
with this Christmas poster.
It must have been St Nicholas.
Well,
for all I knew
               it could be the Pope dressed up as Santa
or the other way around.

It was either laugh and look like a loony
or cry and take this shit home with me.
I should either
turn around and go home
I thought
or get in, order
traditional greek salad plus spaghetti carbonara
then furiously
smash the whole damn place into pieces
before dessert.

I chuckled
in my raincoat and walked on.
I didn’t dare flip a coin.