THE PROPERTY DEVELOPER - 2017
Present efforts to conserve the countryside around the White Cliffs (Dame Vera in action!) -
and ongoing threats elsewhere persuade me to post this current comment on today's world.
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What care I for gate or fence...
Come - let us talk of pounds and pence.
What care I for trees and fields...
Pray tell me what the profit yields.
What care I for bird or beast...
Unless the creatures are deceased.
What care I for the caring majority...
When I've got the ear of the local authority.
What care I for high-minded intent...
With my cossetted cronies in Parliament.
What care I for the obtuse objection
From some other who'll be gone at the next election.
My personal world finds contented conceit...
In a cash-friendly vision of cement and concrete.
And success is so sweet!
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M.C. Newberry
Thu 7th Sep 2017 15:20
They say "money talks" and sometimes I think (especially
in consideration of our wonderful but fast fading countryside) that we should ignore its jabber.
David - some words from my own past come back to me:
Cynicism is the last resort of idealism. And, no, they weren't from the inimitable Oscar Wilde!