cold is cold is cold
hot is hot is hot
so what so what so what?
tell us something
we don’t know
not bend our ears with
pious platitudes
and the commonplace
we know the world
is topsy turvy
from the bottom to the top
we know who occupies
the corridors of power
we know we’ve let them
get away with it
Shelley wrote somewhere
‘nature alone prevails’
a nice poetic thought
though today it needs
all the help it can get
‘they paved paradise
put up a parking lot’
someone else wrote
now dictators fight for oil
while the seas begin to boil
we must we must we must
Save Our Soil
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Jeff Cloves
Picture Rupert Loydell
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