Meadowhead Bard

Random and surreal poetry satire and short stories.

Poet in a Tree.

Im going off piste now, the prompts haven’t been prompting me much lately, too boring. Usually when I do this I get little interest, so here goes.
The eagle eyed will recognise the resemblance to a Bob Dylan line “As I went out one morning to breath the air around Tom Paine” The track “As I Went Out One Morning” from the album John Wesley Harding.
The album included the track “All along the Watch Tower” Made famous by Jimny Hendrix. Like a lot of Dylan’s work better known for the cover version than the original.

Tainted Air.

As I went out one morning to breath the air and free my brain
I began to wonder if I really would go insane
Aside my personal problems, and of those there are not few
My mind wandered into the real world, is there anything I can do ?

I wrote to my MP, asking her “What I should do ?
I promptly got a letter back saying where to buy paper and glue
I emailed the tv news to advise them of my dilemma
They were only interested if I was 99 a marathon runner and my name was Emma

“Dear Mr Clear Stoma, prime minister of our land,
I’m trying to fix the world right now, could you please lend me a hand ?”
“ I’m sorry I’m far too busy our economy’s in a mess”
“You could try the Green Party they could help I guess”

With the Greens I got in touch, they said “To plant a tree”
“Don’t plant it near the coast though the sea is rising exponentially
I wrote to Mr Pootin to ask him if he could save us
I soon got a firm reply “I’m having trouble with my neighbours”

I asked a rich man can you help save the world ?
He reached into his pocket a five pound note unfurled
This is all I can do he said, Ive got my yachts and planes
I thought to myself, yeh, and you’ve got sxxx for brains.

So then it was all down to Americas Mr Phart
“ Can you stop burning coal and oil that would be a start ?”
“Coal and oil are all important to me and our economy,
“That and getting the ball away from the tricky eighteenth tee”

I asked the people of the world to help, so I wouldn’t be alone
No response did I get, all too busy with their phone
So I went to see my doctor to see what he could do for me
I ended asking for a frontal lobotomy.

All words Meadowhead Bard, excepting the Dylan quote and the following.
From W.C Fields, “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy”

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