Geoff, I love it!
Denise
On 3 Jun 2017, at 11:45 am, Geoff Ryan <> wrote:
> *GARBAGE CHOOKS*
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>
> With scorn ye call us Garbage Chooks
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> A monicker fallacious
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> For if ye examine your abuse
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> Ye'll find it quite mendacious.
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> It is your ilk, the plaguing ape
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> Whose actions are obscene
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> Destroying fruit-filled forests
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> And grassy lands serene
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> Replacing all with ugliness
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> Your sterile roads and nests
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> Which suffocate all other life
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> With choking air and pests.
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> And by your selfish actions
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> From mountains to the sea
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> Our habitats consumed, destroyed
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> To boost your GDP.
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> We may be forced to eat your trash
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> Through circumstance or need
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> The excess of your selfishness
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> Extravagance and greed
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> Yet we maintain our dignity
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> Our beauty's not reduced
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> Not blighted by obesity
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> Nor scarred by drug abuse.
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> We come from ancient lineage
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> Thirty million years around
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> Our ancestors have enjoyed this world
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> With not one garbage mound
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> Whilst your ilk have left their scars
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> For a million years or less
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> New comers to this planet
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> You've created quite a mess.
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>
> So before you use derogatory
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> One fact we must attest
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> Its not your filthy garbage dumps
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> Where the Pelican builds its nest.
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>
>
> *Geoff Ryan *
>
> *2017*
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