Part 1
If only some more of these fucking trees
Would catch another deadly disease
If sudden oak death is no deception
I'll look forward to better mobile reception
If we cut down the rest, build a
Frankie and Bennys
We can grow the economy
by THOUSANDS of pennies
Woods are for fly tipping
Waste products, and dogging
Fast food wrappers
And illegal logging
By people called Britney
And Kylie, and Jaydon
Who have online liaisons
With someone from Aden
But as for their neighbour
They don't even talk
And prefer their Wii-Fit
To having a walk
And burn motors, scorching
Three hundred year oak
While they hang the Green Man
From a branch, with a rope
While dogging
And snorting lines of coke
Part 2
Pug-faced Saxon,
with superior smirk
Can't hide his contempt for this
"verse-writing berk"
Why can't you be normal
And do like the rest?
You're thinking too much
Mediocrity's best
Apply the electrodes
And make him goodthinkful
Just far too sensitive
And needs a good skinful
All these poems and musing
Are downright weird
Next he'll probably
Be growing a beard
Too intellectual,
Writing and thinking,
When he should be watching football
And drinking
Is he UKIP? A racist?
DOES HE EAT BABIES?
And fear that foreigners will
Bring in rabies?
Or Green, and thus
"equally dangerous"?
Just lacking irrational
Fear of strangers
If you don't like it, clear off
Over some border
You clearly have
Some kind of disorder
And have no place
In England's New Order.

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Poem - Elm and Ash
PoetryAn impassioned rant about the relentless over-urbanisation of England