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Fog and Veg

Fog and Veg

 

There’s fog inside my house

There’s fog inside my head

I cannot see my apple or banana

Am I dead?

 

There’s fog inside my bedroom

There’s fog inside my eye

What’s happened to my peas, my avocado?

Will I die?

 

There’s fog inside the radio

And fog inside my toast

Where are my tangerine and my asparagus –

I’m a ghost?

 

There’s fog along the seaside

There’s fog inside the tree –

Without my mango, celery and damson,

R.I.P.

 

There’s fog inside the forecast

There’s fog inside the fog

Without my nine or more a day, I’m like a

Large dead dog

 

Who brought this fog upon us

With its threat of fresh infection?

No veg! It must be party types preparing

An election

 

 

Click here for a Guardian article

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/02/smog-alert-england-wales-air-pollution-saharan-dust

Click here for a Guardian article, but note that it’s from 2006

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2006/may/25/healthandwellbeing.health

Click here for Bill’s New Statesman research

http://nscompsandpoets.wordpress.com/

Click here to buy Bill’s poetry collection Ringers

http://www.cinnamonpress.com/ringers/

Fog and Veg

As polluted fog covered the South and Midlands, publicity was being given to new studies that suggested the ‘five a day’ fruit and vegetable policy was inadequate. European, Scots and general elections are all on the horizon.


2 April 2014

POETRY KIT WEBRING

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