#571 - have you noticed the smoky smell of the world?

 

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have you noticed the smoky smell of the world?

honouring the five plus million people

who die from air pollution in the world every year

 

 

have you noticed the smoky smell of the world?

it doesn’t have to be a war

or somebody lit up next to a bowser

 

pack a day the world’s been quite some time now

light one off another and who needs to sleep?

 

a lot of it you can’t see

some of it can’t even be smelt

but it’s in every lung

 

big billboards to advertise the stuff

cow can be chimney too

and as for me and you?

pass it along, have a pension fund puff

 

some countries you have to smoke outside

it’s like that little room in an airport

where travellers practise for landing on Venus

 

but have you noticed?

the world begins to look like an ashtray

just here and there to begin

spaghetti freeways, stacks and stacks

it’s going viral

 

the temperature’s on the up and up

you can measure it with the sea

 

some say it’s just that this world’s smokin’

(it’s certainly whizzing around rather fast)

some say we’re just on fire

 

slaves in the pit can choke on the dust

 

even down here get a whiff now and then

like plastic someone’s tossed into the flames

 

one wonders how such a thing got into heads

 

can’t be from forgetting to oil anything

(industry’s wheels are well greased)

 

it’s not about money missing either

(it costs to pump this stuff out all the time

we pay the captains handsomely

and who wants to buy a fart?)

 

no

I think

it’s just that this clever creature’s

come from the ice

stamping and clapping

and rubbing some sticks

living in a sauna

still trying to keep warm