Reflections on an enormous puddle

jp — Mon, 25 May 2009 08:27:49 +0000

25 Jul 2007

Written after the floods in Yorkshire, then published during the major UK flooding in June/July 2007

You ignored all the warnings
About global warming
(Or climate change as we now call it)
You dismissed the statistics
As myth told by mystics
In favour of cramming your wallit.

All those air miles behind you
Expanding your mind? You
Know: brains aren’t things on which you sit.
So instead now you find
An expanded behind
That’s the size of the cloud you emit.

Now, given the rain
Fell again, and again,
And poor Yorkshire is all under watter
Then if you still deny
The state of the sky
You must be as mad as a hatter.

But if you’re not sure
Of the need for a cure

J-P Stacey

Quiet little Lies - doggerel

Reflections on an enormous puddle