Thursday 24 September 2020

Subsidence

 

Subsidence

 

Due to house subsidence

And following compliance

The board of powers-that-be

Condemned an old oak tree

 

Hence all the oak tree’s subjects

Squirrels birds and insects

From nests and hollows poured

As chainsaws buzzed and roared

 

And upon it being felled  

All the occupants expelled

I counted many rings

Autumns winters summers springs

 

And came to the conclusion

We’re under an illusion

If in our complexity

To the insects gods are we

 

Then to gods we’re surely too

Under microscopic view

Being viewed as nothing worth

On our dwelling planet Earth

 

And the gods then for their sake

May be given cause to break

By the ruling of a board

Of superior accord

 

If the lower powers-that-be

Condemn an old oak tree

Higher cause is justified

Should the universe subside

 

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