Living skin is invaluable
\nDead skin becomes the hide
\nOr leather and then whether
\nThe wearer had denied
\nThe life force or the death knell
\nEither way we see
\nA living breathing miracle
\nAnd lifeless infamy.
\nUppitiness and snobbery
\nIts everywhere you go
\nOverweening arrogance
\nThe elevated show
\nTheir ignorance of cruelty
\nOf pitiable refrain
\nHubristic and toffee-nosed
\nIgnorant of others pain<\/p>\n
No humbleness about them
\nUnpretentious, without airs
\nWho forgo the self importance
\nTheir Delusional affairs
\nDressed to kill and kill they do
\nSumptuous their display
\nInto exotic leathers
\nInverted so to say
\nThe crocodiles come in for
\ngreat uncertainty
\nThat they will be sort after
\nWild or farmed
\nMore and so we see
\nFresh water and salt water
\nAnd The caiman too can be
\nAbused and used in fashion
\nBags, shoes and upholstery
\nHermes,Moet Hennessy
\nLouis Vuitton
\nGucci
\nNames that just roll off the tongue
\nSuch kingly dignity
\nSkin is live and godly
\nLeather is dead and gone
\nCured of all its naturalness
\nInfact a revolting con
\nAn industry is out there
\nThe farming hatching crowd
\nThe stunning and the slaughtering
\nThe chilling skinning proud
\nPandering to selfishness
\nTo nobleness and rank
\nTo ancestry and dynasty
\nAnd how much is in your bank<\/p>\n
But whether you have a heart
\nAnd soul, and love and care for those
\nVictims who are rarer
\nThan hens teeth that some have chose
\nTo murder in the prime of life
\nWhen skin is vibrant and
\nWhen after tanning curing fleshing
\nSomebody will land
\nA rather hefty profit
\nDealers let us say
\nWho murder godly life forms
\nAnd watch Reptilians pay
\nWith hours of pain and agony
\nThe stress, the torture trade
\nDescribing it as exotic
\nThe fools join the parade
\nWith margins reaching high points
\nThat draw the snobbery
\nAttracting those with lots of dosh
\nIts daylight robbery
\nThe departmental barons
\nAre earning hand over fist
\nFlogging their dead horses
\nThat the snobs cannot resist<\/p>\n
They have lost all their irreverence
\nImpressed they never are
\nTell them that its exotic
\nThat it came from afar
\nAway in some wild river
\nThe insensitive well heeled
\nAre as ignorant as the day is long
\nThat much is soon revealed
\nSo much is farmed and molly coddled
\nReputablity
\nIts all about the patterning
\nAnd the ascendancy
\nThese great souls
\nHave emerged from the dark ages
\nAnd they still
\nHaving learned and turned
\nAnd yearned remarkably they spill<\/p>\n
Out into the swamps and through
\nBackwaters and we know
\nHow amazingly powerful
\nAnd in great jungles grow
\nMassively important
\nIn their field and stride
\nA pair of matching shoes and
\nA bag
\nCan engender in one pride
\nYes Swollen with such puffery
\nAnd big talk all the way
\nA failure to recall the beautiful
\nCreature
\nThat did pay
\nA high price for the low life
\nTo purchase and to choose
\nThe skin of someones mother
\nOr some child who could refuse
\nThe haughtiness and bluster
\nToo much of it about
\nWearing someone elses skin
\nThe blatancy and rout
\nThe audacity and shamefulness
\nAnd what is flippancy
\nThe great affront to godliness
\nAnd respect for honesty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Living skin is invaluable Dead skin becomes the hide Or leather and then whether The wearer had denied The life force or the death knell Either way we see A living breathing miracle And lifeless infamy. Uppitiness and snobbery Its … Continue reading