No Condition is Permanent, 19 Poets on Climate Justice and Change

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YASMINE BRIEN

El Desierto Verde - The Green Desert We don’t want any aggro guvnor No siree, none of that That corporate pushy shovey needs to stop - hear me Wanna settle this with a food fight? How ’bout a riot? What’s that got to do with the price of fish you say? Hah - it was the “we won’t take it no more” bread queues that toppled the Tsars Don’t know yer history, or yer science it seems Let me put it this way You can’t live off eating palm trees You can’t live off drinking ethanol Sure, the West might like a regular petrol nipple feed Chased down with a can of coke and some “ethno” food You can eat all the rice in China if you fancy, topped off with a bit of credit crunch But you’ll still be 2.5% closer to the fan as the shit hits it Talking your high art and how ya have a Black friend While you pump in yer hyper inflated paper queen’s heads To the growing monoculture of your own demise Think a few more fences and a few less papers Guarded by men in black uniforms are gonna Protect your 2.4? I heard your daughter’s last meal was Seroxat Eaten from shaking hands while cyber social networing the globe - all in the name of progress But I need my car you say... But I need to lay claim to this land... And this business flight’s essential... You just don’t understand We’ll see my friend, we’ll see Cos when our backs are to the wall And Canute throws in the towel You may reach for my hand with a pearly white smile But know now my friend, know now You can carbon credit kiss my ass. written an hour before attending this: http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/688196 and relates to my later article from Colombia: http://www.bristol.indymedia.org.uk/article/690742

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