Soylent Red

Forward... for those of you rather younger than I, Soylent Green was a movie in which overpopulation was reduced by making people into biscuits... yes really! SOYLENT RED It’s dark and it’s drizzling The burgers are sizzling We’re toasting the baps in the grill No creature was injured For Ted couldn’t be cured The virus had made him too ill And once he was panting And ceaselessly ranting His sister conducted the kill We skinned him then rinsed him Then auntie Maud minced him But then at the door, the old bill He stood in our porch with his baton and torch And that was the end of that copper Before we could carve him We needed to halve him Which Benjamin did with his chopper The world now unclean Full of horrors obscene With no cure for this human blight So we off them and scoff them But two don’t come often So no-one goes hungry tonight