Give Me Back the Ozone Layer

The poet begins the reading

'I'm sentimental if you know what I mean.'
'Oh, that's good!'

I thought about this cuckoo hissing
At the Botanical Gardens 

He'd also mediated on the stratosphere
That sponge up above 

Accordingly, so did I too
Footslogging around the museum

I took a sufti at my phone by the toilets
A headline caught my attention

Liverpool to sack Jürgen Koop
Kooped up in this nightmare exhibition

We came across a giant redwood
The trunk constructed out of metal

To enlighten the children
To prepare them for the future

My son explains his steam engine 
A whole troupe of burly men

Black soot and freezing cold snow
Three layers of woollen jumpers

Sod the blast pipe carbon dioxide 
Your Austrian Giesl burp  

There are bigger concerns
Than soil degradation 

Yes, the fireman is wearing clothes
The shoveller is wearing clothes

But the driver is naked
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