This was really written to be performed and listened to, rather than written down and read. But as neither you or I are likely to be at an open-mic poetry evening anytime soon, I thought I’d put it on here:
ACID RAIN! ACID RAIN!
No-one mentions that again
We’ve got so used to climate change
Whatever happens won’t feel strange
Floods flow, refugees will run
Toddlers rampage with a gun
All seems normal; all ok
Who cares what goes extinct today?
Plastic pile-up, boiling seas
Starving children, choking trees
Melting ice and mangled bees
Too much to do… do as you please
Download apps and spend, spend, spend
Like that picture, don’t unfriend
Be the latest, own the gadget
Can’t afford it? Card it… Cadge it…
Payday loan! Don’t stop to blink
DON’T MISS OUT… DON’T BREATHE… DON’T THINK.
RC 22-2-18
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