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Non-native plants

Erase the indigenous;

They Deny the Good, True 

And Beautiful Spirit Of a Place.

Weeds: Themselves Colonizers 

Are Weaponized

By Human Colonizers 

As Disrupters of Native Soils.

Tourists: Human Weeds.

Ephemeral Colonizers

With Permanent Impacts.

They Inevitably corrupt 

The places they visit.

Cruise Ships and Jet planes

Are the primary Vectors 

Of a Corruption

That Transmits the Pathogen

Of Homogenization. 

Tourism is 

The Irruption of Alien 

Appetites and Values 

Into Foreign Milieux.

These Predations

Vitiate the Intellectual

Moral, Aesthetic

Psychic, Morphological

Botanical, Biological

Geological and Organic

Elements 

That are Intrinsic to Place.

That are Essential

To its Genius Loci. 

Tourism is 

Colonization writ small

The Erasure of the Unique

The Proliferation of the Predatory.

It is the Incipient Invocation

Of Kali

Destroyer of Indigeneity

Destroyer of Worlds.