Though we approve of manual labour,
We've no time to soil our hands,
And we'd like to save the tiger
and to stop it killing lambs.
We're the amateur ecologists,
Poets and systems analysts,
Of the second Hampstead Nuclear
Disarmament Brigade.
Come to our Thursday meeting,
Three in the afternoon,
It's held (with tea and biscuits)
in the vicar's drawing room.
We're the Marketing Consultants to
Campaign to Save a Tree,
And, showing our good faith,
We are to waive some of our fee.
On Sunday mornings, if it's fine,
We run a market stall:
We're selling cakes to buy some bread
For the starving in Nepal.
To show our solidarity,
No meat shall pass our lips,
We'll eat brown rice and lentils,
And nutburgers and chips.
We're the new wave novelists,
Lecturers and journalists
And amateur psychiatrists
Who'll save the world by smoking less
and drinking herbal tea.
Author notes
Wrote this years ago. Seems to grow more relevant the older it gets...
In a list
Who else will save the world?
Comments
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I really adore this - I can see myself in it - 'selling cakes... etc'. All the middle class fairweather conservationists still preserving their vested interests. Sharp and funny observation and thoroughly well put together. You're a clever wee systems analyst. Love, the amateur psychiatrist!! x
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What should we do for an encore?? I suppose, once we take the contentious waste to the dump, we should begin to auction organs..... roll up, roll up, one oversized liver free to collector............
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