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On
Eating Cans And Cartons
- It has
been suggested we eat cans and cartons,
- For
carrying isn’t much sport.
- It
seemed good to me – I tried it to see –
- Just
last week and here’s my report.
- My gums
are all cut and my dentures are bust,
- My
fingers are jagged and sore,
- I’ve a
pain in the gut cos it’s filled up with rust –
- It’s
never been like that before.
- It
isn’t much fun I can tell you,
- Walking
back home down the track
- With an
inside that’s filled full of rubbish,
- And
nothing at all in your pack.
- It may
be all right in a circus –
- Eating
old swords and the like,
- But
they don’t eat a pile of old garbage –
- And
then try to go for a hike.
- Cans
are not made for consumption,
- And
cartons are not made to chew;
- Bottles
are no good for biting,
- And
bags aren’t best in a stew.
- So
don’t eat that rubbish I beg you,
- Be it
alloy or plastic or tin,
- But
bash it and burn it and bag it –
- Then
CARRY it back to a bin.
- Wilf
Moon
- “The
Waysider”
- No.
149 Sept/Oct 1977
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