#1207 - give up, hang up

 

1207

22.iv.23

4.112

give up, hang up

after Bob Marley

 

if all the ice melts

and they say it will

well not all but

 

anthems go under

everyone swims

 

or maybe eventually

it could take a while

but who knows

 

it is melting though

and

if the ice melts

it’s an ill wind…

tide floats all boats and so forth

 

wise to build

 

this climate thing was always over our heads

people kept saying ‘literally’

when they couldn’t really mean it

 

now here they all come floating our way

bedraggled, the plank hangers

an outsourced call centre

last scraps of flag to keep off the sun

 

if the ice melts

and it’s melting right now

then ocean will be more of a thing

 

blind greed did it

will have done

 

Cassandra is a lovely name

anyone seems crazed when too full up with the truth

 

the kids will ask

what did you do daddy mummy?

 

some of us were still waiting to find out

to be put through

 

it will be like a truth foretold

just where we are

though you wouldn’t know the place

you might not even notice

 

if all this should come to pass

 

we’ll still be on hold

this muzak goes on forever