We see and hear and read so much

about our environmental problems

but still ignore the elephant in the room.

We know so much about global warming,

air pollution, species extinction,

plastics in the sea - predictions of doom.

Yet still the tusker is unrecognised

in our worries about our ailing Earth

while we search for cures amid prevailing gloom.

But is it ours, this jewel of Earth?

For sure, humanity's so dominant

we treat it like some family heirloom.

Yet we have really stolen it,

usurped it with so many people

that other forms of life have little room.

The elephant is human population

and it's not enough to slow its growth;

we urgently need to reduce it - and soon !

Why aren't all the world's governments

keenly promoting birth control

with free contraceptive pills and condoms?

Will it need wars or worldwide plagues

to cull our rampant humanity?

Perhaps over-using antibiotics is a boon

for all the Earth's non-human life

if a global pandemic decimates

mankind one minute before high noon.

Is human misery on such  scale

the ultimate price we'll have to pay

to enable a healthier planet to bloom?

Otherwise there'll be no room

for that ostracised elephant in the room.

How many mistakes do I make in a day?

I tried to keep count but lost my way.

Perhaps a calculator could say

with integral calculus showing the way

Brief (allotment) Encounter

"My word, you've got a lot of weeds"

she said. Cheeky so-and-so !

"Of course" I said "I grow them for compost.

Everyone here does. Didn't you know?"

"Oh" she muttered. Exit deflated lady.

(Well, only a little lie as lies go)

Young women filled the tiny dance floor

rocking and rolling to the beat,

beauty shining with more and more

smiles and laughter on rhythmic feet.

But strange that none of them have men

hovering by, coming and going.

Too many surely for a hen party,

bridal sash and maids not showing.

And then it hit me - the entrance quids,

a charity name discreetly labelled !

Their men are home looking after the kids

at least one of whom will be disabled.

So now the scene becomes much darker.

The women here must all be plucky,

dealing with problems in a life much starker -

the yummy mummies who birthed unlucky.

When those expensive garden centre flowers

have flourished, bloomed, shrivelled and died,

self-sown hollyhocks, nasturtiums,

marigolds have survived.

We pride ourselves on our standards of hygiene

and every housewife's cleanliness

yet how much of that is not for health

but rather 'civilised' squeamishness ?

Tweets 5

Enjoyment accompanies an event.

Satisfaction comes later.

 

The song before the singer

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Pub bands are better to listen and dance to

than top bands or, even worse, tribute bands.

They play the best of everyone's music

not just their own, ignoring the mediocre.

Rapist and muderer

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Does he deserve to be housed and fed

for several decades at public expense?

Of course not. He should be executed.

Why are we as a nation so bloody dense?

The drug war should be extended wider

for TV, brands and social media.

Coming soon, tickets at great expense,

a top band's visual effects show

(with accompanying background music).

The dew's on the grass.

The summer is past.

Where is the justice?

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A murderer served 33 years of restricted life.

His two teenage victims lost between them

130 years of no life at all.

I certainly don't want penury

but equally don't crave luxury.

Blackberrying - a lesson for life.

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It's always the biggest and juiciest berries

that fall in the brambles before you can pick them

Out On A Limb

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Diseased, decaying, putrid blued ?

Nothing unhealthy, just tatooed !

Olympic Medal Tally Positions

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Over-rating just the gold

or over-rating total medals

surely could be better told

by using points for different colours -

3 for gold, then 2, then 1

with positions according to the sum.

Olympic  Anomaly

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Tje losing semi-finalists in every sport

compete for one to win the bronze.

In every sport that is but one !

Why does boxing give a bronze

to both of those losers that fought ?

Olympic Hangover

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We've banned from circusses

all animal performances

but the horsey coteries

still have their dressages.

A novelist builds houses.

A poet crafts jewels.

So what was so special that Freud discovered ?

That young boys fantasise fucking their mothers !

Male  Unmentionables

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What is he thinking while she's sucking ?

What fantasising when he's fucking ?