Green budget halved
in the grip of a man
who shakes more hands
than he holds.
who knows the slash
better than the marks
they leave on the ground.
O, Owen,
tell the men with castles
that they need canoes.
Lie to their tears
when it’s too late to stop
the flood.
There is violence in truth -
when it hits –
it winds and fires
the stomach
we’re sucking
too much turbulence
from our whirling failure.
Who isn’t frightened
of what rips doors
and uproots houses?
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Q1. Can writing poems about climate
change change anything?
A. The first draft of this poem was called “Ode To Owen Peterson”, (I
believe his name is Owen Paterson) so yes, ignorant poets writing about political
issues need to research and channel their education through poetry.
Q2. What will you do with your educated
opinion now you have written a political poem?
A. The evening I wrote this poem, I fell asleep in the kitchen of my
shared flat, leaving the heat and all the lights in the house blaring. When my
flat mate came home to ask what I was doing, I said writing a poem about climate change. My educated opinion has
intensified my guilt about this incident.
Q3. Really
though, what are you going to do?
A. I have signed anti-climate change cuts on SumOfUs.org, 38 Degrees
and Change.org. I will participate in protests and not shy from confrontation
with Climate Change sceptics. It’s about the facts.
Speaking of
facts, by 2016, Climate Change will be removed from the UK National Curriculum,
when I told my mother this she said “isn’t the National Curriculum the most
dangerous form of censorship?”
Fact; if more
people thought like my mother there would be no Peterson’s.
Actually 98%
of people probably do.
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