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A poet's tent

Hi I got the bus from Brighton to Glastonbury on Thursday and Sunday and just wanted to thank you for a really good service - took a lot of hassle away and at a good price. I was also chatting to a guy about the poetry tent and wrote a poem below about watching poets talk about climate change at Glastonbury, thought you might be interested.....

A poet’s tent

The world is dying, you’re not crying, okay well maybe sometimes sighing but your flying and excessive buying means you're just not trying!
Petition signing will stop the mining and reduce the icing on the world’s silver lining
Buy fair-trade and organically laid, support Wateraid to prevent those crops that fade

Eco-bikes, recyclable mic's, corporate dislikes for the likes of Nike
Economics and politics and non-gas emitting glow sticks
You don’t need expensive scent to vent, and when you go be a gent, make a dent, and leave your tent.

Leave my tent? 80,000 tents made by the Taiwanese, Chinese, Japanese and maybe even some Geordies
Made by coal, gas and oil that spoil and soil and make those farmers toil?
Made with fuel that chokes and soaks the coasts? But allows us the tokes a festival prevokes
Surely it's best for all if the call is to have NO tent at all?

But how can I gaze at the Pyramid stage if I have no tent to raise?
I can't admire my fire if I have to use a bush to change my attire
I can’t strum my guitar if I’m sleeping in the car
Or take a trip if I have nowhere to kip or a front door to unzip?
Things would get so low if I couldn’t drink under my gazebo

And how about a poet's tent?
Did they muse over the abuse that will produce?
How many emissions did they use to say those premonitions and in what condition are African missions after their renditions?
Are their clothes environmentally protected and has the world been affected by the poem they just projected?

I say take down your signs, leave your lines and your chimes on people’s crimes
Don’t donate or try to create a world that you don’t tolerate
I don’t want to hate or discuss the G8 or get irate on a low carbon date
I want my footprint to be as small as possible…..
I think it’s best if I just stay at home and meditate.

Ta

Jonathan



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