Why did ABRAHAM
leave Mesopotamia?
Was it a bad place?
God kick-started our troubles -
wanderlust and its problems.
NOMADS wise enough
moved for food, without running,
so little to pack,
trotted with donkeys and goats;
farming didn't turn frenzied
till someone wanted
to travel First Class.
HERMITS sit still, warn, challenge,
hold us back, and calm us down,
but FORD had a laugh,
sold us cars without warning
roads would be crowded -
'You can buy a bigger box!'
That's a pretty street -
50 treasured private cars -
half a million quid -
crammed, cramped value - stalled cold cash,
sight for Ford's sore eyes,
moved maybe an hour a day ;
our praised FREE MARKET
surely not clever enough
to use wealth efficiently.
