{"id":46780,"date":"2020-07-11T13:11:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T13:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=46780"},"modified":"2020-07-13T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T10:00:05","slug":"clark%e2%80%99s-bear%e2%80%99s-trading-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/07\/clark%e2%80%99s-bear%e2%80%99s-trading-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark\u2019s Bear\u2019s trading post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does anyone know what its like to be free<br \/>\nBorn into the wilds<br \/>\nBears Actually<br \/>\nFamilial creatures<br \/>\nLiving their life<br \/>\nTo be captured by men<br \/>\nIntroduced then to strife<\/p>\n<p>Subjection to be overwhelmed by it all<br \/>\nBondage enslavement<br \/>\nBeing on call<br \/>\nUnder a home under a heel<br \/>\nTreated like dirt<br \/>\nAnd that was for real<br \/>\nCaptured and lead with a ring<br \/>\nIn  ones nose<br \/>\nBear and canned so many blows<br \/>\nRestraining your movement<br \/>\nCoercing you too<br \/>\nKept in Cage<br \/>\nRepressed good and true<\/p>\n<p>Hampered and shackled<br \/>\nLocked up and kept<br \/>\nImpounded in irons<br \/>\nWhen you were so adept<br \/>\nNow you were listed<br \/>\nIn a TRADING POST<br \/>\nA circus and show<br \/>\nThat the people love most<\/p>\n<p>A travelling circus<br \/>\nNot free anymore<br \/>\nConfined to a cage<br \/>\nFor an age with no door<br \/>\nWhat food you get is thrown<br \/>\nAt your each day<br \/>\nDetained your a prisoner<br \/>\nAnd there\u2019s no way<\/p>\n<p>You are now getting out<br \/>\nYou do what you are told<br \/>\nThat\u2019s what it\u2019s about<br \/>\nTricks for the punters<br \/>\nPlaying with ball<br \/>\nRiding a bike<br \/>\nComes when they call<br \/>\nA performing bear<br \/>\nYou do what you are told<br \/>\nOtherwise it\u2019s no food<br \/>\nAnd in shit you are rolled<\/p>\n<p>Abandoned and left<br \/>\nTo the punters who throw<br \/>\nBuns cigarettes and matches<br \/>\nYou know<br \/>\nWe are at the roadside<br \/>\nAll that traffic smell<br \/>\nThree shows a day<br \/>\nWe have reached your hell<\/p>\n<p>LINCOLN NEW HAMPSHIRE<br \/>\nThat\u2019s where we\u2019re based<br \/>\nClosed down for corvid<br \/>\nSo we were placed<br \/>\nOn our own in our cages<br \/>\nNot much food to eat<br \/>\nNo punters no money<br \/>\nAnd we got beat<\/p>\n<p>Now the masked outlaws<br \/>\nThey are everywhere<br \/>\nCoughing and spluttering<br \/>\nNo one aware<br \/>\nOf our ghastly cages<br \/>\nOf when we were free<br \/>\nNow we are bears that perform<br \/>\nTragically<\/p>\n<p>Under lock and key<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a miserable plaice<br \/>\nThey shout at us<br \/>\nWhip us<br \/>\nIt is a disgrace<br \/>\nWe are being tortured<br \/>\nBut most folk don\u2019t see<br \/>\nThey just buy a ticket<br \/>\nAnd the niggardly<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the staff and the owners<br \/>\nThey don\u2019t care a jot<br \/>\nWe live with their madness<br \/>\nThat is all we have got<br \/>\nThe foods often stale<br \/>\nThey knock us around<br \/>\nWe are being abused<br \/>\nIn their shit we are drowned<\/p>\n<p>So many are unconscious<br \/>\nThey don\u2019t seem to see<br \/>\nHow much we suffer<br \/>\nFrom their brutality<br \/>\nWhat nobody sees<br \/>\nIs the caning we get<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not our fault<br \/>\nThat Clark\u2019s are in debt<\/p>\n<p>We all feel anguish<br \/>\nSorrow and grief<br \/>\nWe miss the forests<br \/>\nAnd the belief<br \/>\nWe miss the river<br \/>\nThe salmon the sky<br \/>\nLiving on frozen food<br \/>\nMoldy and high<\/p>\n<p>These kind of shows<br \/>\nShould all be shut down<br \/>\nWe should be free<br \/>\nTo live out of town<br \/>\nIn  the woods and the forests<br \/>\nTo live and be free<br \/>\nNot left on our own<br \/>\nWhere we never should be<\/p>\n<p>And now all this corvid nonsense<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a pain<br \/>\nDistancing masks<br \/>\nMore suffering again<br \/>\nSanitise chemicals<br \/>\nAre everywhere<br \/>\nNano tech vaccines<br \/>\nAnd yet more despair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does anyone know what its like to be free Born into the wilds Bears Actually Familial creatures Living their life To be captured by men Introduced then to strife Subjection to be overwhelmed by it all Bondage enslavement Being on &hellip; 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