END OF HISTORY SALE!
FINAL DAYS! TOTAL CLEARANCE!!
The END OF HISTORY SALE is Now On!!!
Buy this planet! *slightly damaged
When it’s gone it’s gone.
It’s a massive, one-off sale sensation.
Conservation? Don’t be conned!
We’ve got the whole world for exploitation!
When it’s gone it’s gone.
Buy this beautiful hardwood foot-rest!
Timber sourced from the Amazon:
the world’s greatest tropical forest.
When it’s gone it’s gone.
Cut-price bush-meat in a tin!
Cage birds! Going for a song!!
Rhino horn and tiger skin!!!
When it’s gone it’s gone.
Fish-meal fertilizer! Rock bottom prices!!
Don’t delay!!! Don’t dwell upon
the global fish stocks all in crisis.
When it’s gone it’s gone.
The last remaining lowland gorilla
in a forest in Gabon.
Black market price: one thousand dollars
and when it’s gone it’s gone.
The voice of Alan Titchmarsh tellin’ ya,
“Multi-purpose compost, 2 for 1!
This peat matured for 10 millennia
and when it’s gone, it’s gone!”
Driven by Jeremy Clarkson himself
with five-second acceleration, nought to a ton.
Don’t worry about the Greenland ice-shelf:
when it’s gone it’s gone.
Extensive oil fields in the Arctic
where the sun has never shone!
Melting ice-caps expose a bargain!
When it’s gone it’s gone.
Bangladeshi cushion covers,
sequinned scarves and silk sarongs.
*may be soiled now the country’s flooded
When it’s gone it’s gone.
Paving slabs of Indian granite
quarried by kids in Rajasthan
and freighted half-way around the planet.
When it’s gone it’s gone.
We’ve got green, renewable fuel from the tropics!
It’s cheap as chips! …well, no, that’s wrong
…it’s cheap as clear-cut rainforest woodchips
and when it’s gone it’s gone.
Hairless hominids, stylish and elegant;
bipedal gait and opposing thumbs:
the universe’s only source of intelligence.
When it’s gone it’s gone.
FINAL DAYS! TOTAL CLEARANCE!!
The END OF HISTORY SALE is Now On!!!
Buy this planet! *seriously damaged
When it’s gone it’s gone.
Tim Ellis
Sat 5th Dec 2015 20:37
We've got to the end of the first week of the Paris climate conference, and I gather a document of some sort has been produced after a lot of wrangling between negotiators which the politicians will have to fight about next week. I don't know yet what the document says, but I've no doubt it falls well short of anything that will help us. But at least they're talking about it seriously now. We can but hope.
Talking of hope, although I've only sold one, single online copy of my pamphlet since I published it, I'm going to post the link yet again. I'm a poet, I have to be optimistic!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Speak-Unspeakable-words-overheating-world/dp/1519178085/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1449347744&sr=1-1&keywords=speak+the+unspeakable