Harvey Nicholls Protest

Its a busy old street

thats called Knightsbridge

with a lot of foot fall

I can say

we were parked left and right

of their doors

megaphones blast

ing away

banners and leaflets

and repetitive chants

and we kept them all

up through the day

Robert  positioned himself by their

door

with me to his right

let us say

then a long banner

held by some friends

giving it welly for sure

all sorts of people were passing

some in fur coats

but most thought

it wasn’t so nice to be wearing

them

some seem embarrassed

and sought

refuge by crossing out into the road

and others were blatant

but they

still seemed uneasy

and some clearly shocked

so I thought, in fact,

we’d done okay

we moved them

and lots gave the thumbs up

the buses the tour buses too

lots took our photo’s

and lots had a laugh

because we all did

what we had to do

Rob and I read out a long article

and Rob took the stage

so did I

we sang out our messages

one after the other

despite  a

a cold wind

and a  blue sky

there were others callers

we all stuck to our task

no let up at all

and we found

with all of that shouting

my voice soon gave out

I began to get raspy

the sound

faltering slightly

but others took up the challenge

and we

without a doubt

carried the shout

I think we all did fabulously

at about 5.30

a lightening flash

lit up the street

and we knew

either the angels were

coming to join us

then a  great clap of thunder came too

then we were hit by a hail storm

no locusts just hard bits of snow 

deciding to give up the protest

at that point we all had to go

I suggested the directors were upstairs

tossing the snow  from the sky

thats when my teeth started  chattering so

and I thought I would break down and cry

but stiff upper lip we collected our things

and ran around the corner

to see

if there was shelter

there wasn’t

I shook hands with all their security

amicable they were  all through the day

they stood and opened their doors

some people braved  our rants

and  they got through

today not a lot

but that didn’t matter

we got to the task

we didn’t chatter

kept up the chanting

they knew we were there

and I think we got results

we drove them spare

it just goes to show

just a few avid souls

can get to a big store

with all its controls

and make lots of noise

and deliver the case

and appeal to a lot of folk

yea with good grace

and we did and we did get through

lots turned away

some smiled a lot

and talked they did say

they agreed with us

what we did was okay

reminding them all

fur is cruel all the way