It's Nowt To Do With Me!

Mother and father know best, they always have don’t you know,

feathering their nests with unneeded appliances

they only use once or never take out of the box, so what,

at least they have the power of ‘have’ and keep up with the Jones’s,

although ideally they would be winning that race.

Wealth is relative to your wants and your needs,

but if you have it why not flaunt it, buy this and buy that

whether you need it or not, for when you tire of it,

you can find it a new home at any old landfill. 

(Give it away to those less fortunate than you –

are you kidding - I will not furnish the needs of those

who don’t even bother to try. 

(I’d rather die first, don't you know - freebies won't come easy from me))

My brats are the same with their Game Boy’s and smart phones

which of course need to be replaced at the very least yearly,

and then there’s their clothes that must be designer, must be designer

for the kudos and the power's in the brand don’t you know,

and when they tire of a thing, off to the jolly old landfill it goes.

Today is so wonderfully pleasant for a stressed mum like me

what with disposable nappies that I dress junior in, for I must confess

I feel a little bit queasy at the thought of dropping his shit down the *netty

from one of those awful terry towelling squares.    

And those disposable ones,

I don’t have to wash them when their purpose is done, just drop them in

the unrecyclable bin and off to the landfill they go. 

Isn’t life so wonderfully easy?

You ask if I’m worried that our planet is in meltdown,

well of course I am for whom in their right mind wouldn’t be?

But I can state categorically indeed quite emphatically

that this pollution is not down to me.  I do as I’m asked

when meeting the task of sorting my rubbish into this or that bin,

tossing whatever in into its designated (right colour) receptacle – 

so see I follow all of the rules.

What happens to them when I’ve done what is asked is beyond my control

for, for my part I’ve just followed them damned written rules

And that plastic polluting the seas, well again it’s not just down to me,

for I rarely visit the coast don’t you know. 

So get off your high horse you who think you’re so so earth friendly,

for of course you haven’t seen me watching you arrive home

in your posh four wheel drive with particulates puffing outa its exhaust. 

Ha!

Anna :o]

*Netty – a toilet, Northumberland dialect., also ‘nowt’ a Northern English word for nothing.

Sherry at Real Toads has us writing of Earth’s grief as we watch it empty down the plughole, we pulling out the plug ourselves and above is my take on it.

Of disposable nappies/diapers, do you know that apart from the few biodegradable nappies in the marketplace, the following happens?

"Decomposing disposable nappies emit noxious methane gas. It will take 200 to 500 years for a disposable nappy to decompose, leaving a legacy to your children's grandchildren.

"The production of disposables uses 3.5 times more energy, 8.3 times more non-renewable resources, and 90 times more renewable resources than real nappies.

"They produce 2.3 times more waste water and 60 times more solid waste than real nappies."

WEN goes on to say: "Tributyl tin (TBT), a chemical compound which is known to disrupt sex hormones, has been found in disposable nappies on sale in the UK.

Please see source of this information here.

Image:  Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Author:  Thue