Tuesday, December 16, 2008

No Smoking

Pink Floyd would be proud, I hope, as would Slash  & Axl: 

Clean air, everywhere,
See the trees breathe in peace,
A clean world to smell in,
Sir, don't smoke here please...

Little baby squirrels, playing,
little birds flying about.
Can't you see those children run,
Sir, please put that out.

No smoking.
They said, no smoking,
They said, no smoking,
No more smoking here please.

Factories bellowing out coal-ash,
Rivers choking out villages,
AKs firing around the globe,
As man burns and pillages,

Thousands starve in Africa,
Hundreds die of bombs,
Millions moved by conflicts,
But they say with aplomb-

No smoking,
They said, no smoking,
They said, no smoking,
No more smoking here please.

Trees being chewed into paper,
Ores being burnt into rust,
Oil being burnt to exhaust,
But don't light up, its a must.

Green forest to a gray jungle,
Blue water to a gray sludge,
But they're against blue smoke,
The police, jury and the judge.

No smoking,
They said, no smoking,
They said, no smoking,
No more smoking here please.

Rapes, murders, heists, scams,
Failure to pay child support,
Think you need a drag,
Come, lets to the station report!

Prisons flowing with undertrials,
Orphans sleeping on the street,
But the government has something better to do,
Health quotas it has to meet!

No smoking.