2014<\/p>\n
the motliest of crews<\/p>\n
made it to Knightsbridge<\/p>\n
They wouldn\u2019t refuse<\/p>\n
Stood out in \u00a0all weathers<\/p>\n
having set up their stall<\/p>\n
Robert Platt and his team<\/p>\n
with banners and leaflets<\/p>\n
they went out full steam<\/p>\n
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outside Harvey Nichol\u2019s<\/p>\n
great windows of glass<\/p>\n
pictorial images<\/p>\n
as people pass<\/p>\n
all the trapped mammals<\/p>\n
screaming in pain<\/p>\n
trapped with crushed limbs<\/p>\n
again and again<\/p>\n
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in their neck of the woods<\/p>\n
broken legs ruptured spleens<\/p>\n
The evil of man<\/p>\n
and assorted machines<\/p>\n
that strip skin and tissue<\/p>\n
And watch innocents die<\/p>\n
insensitive traders<\/p>\n
who put out their lie<\/p>\n
selling furs, selling skin<\/p>\n
blatant disregard<\/p>\n
the cruelty aspect<\/p>\n
it is very hard<\/p>\n
to look into the eyes<\/p>\n
of a Coyote and see<\/p>\n
its utter \u00a0concern<\/p>\n
for presumably<\/p>\n
its family, its cubs<\/p>\n
its future their pain<\/p>\n
the trapper won\u2019t feel<\/p>\n
They are three parts insane<\/p>\n
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Thats if they come back<\/p>\n
Remembers where \u00a0he<\/p>\n
left his vile trap<\/p>\n
by some old \u00a0tree<\/p>\n
the victim in horror<\/p>\n
Dispatched with a boot<\/p>\n
or shot through the head<\/p>\n
life seen just as loot<\/p>\n
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we plead for the Victims<\/p>\n
we feel all the pain<\/p>\n
the blood in their eyes<\/p>\n
the enormous strain<\/p>\n
such humiliation<\/p>\n
irreverently<\/p>\n
murdered in cold blood<\/p>\n
unimaginatively<\/p>\n
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stony and indifferent<\/p>\n
thats the fur trade<\/p>\n
Their \u00a0careless unwillingness<\/p>\n
never to aid<\/p>\n
a dying animal<\/p>\n
pleading aloud<\/p>\n
who is seen as means to an end<\/p>\n
what a coward<\/p>\n
the department stores<\/p>\n
are packed every day<\/p>\n
we appeal, and we reveal<\/p>\n
our dislike for the \u00a0way<\/p>\n
babies are slaughtered<\/p>\n
for handbags and shawls<\/p>\n
expressing courage<\/p>\n
My god \u00a0it appals<\/p>\n
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facing some wrath<\/p>\n
from some passers by<\/p>\n
who jibe with their taunts<\/p>\n
someone\u2019s got to die<\/p>\n
so what if a beaver<\/p>\n
Is throttled \u00a0so what<\/p>\n
a nice tail on my hat<\/p>\n
Thats \u00a0what I have got<\/p>\n
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we do get ridiculed<\/p>\n
some of the day<\/p>\n
others will listen<\/p>\n
others will pay<\/p>\n
krespects to our battle<\/p>\n
our eccentricity<\/p>\n
some cant see just how monstrous<\/p>\n
it is actually<\/p>\n
we used \u00a0our loud speakers<\/p>\n
and made ourselves heard<\/p>\n
it upset some punters<\/p>\n
who thought us absurd<\/p>\n
but wearing a dead fox<\/p>\n
wrapped all around<\/p>\n
or a big fluffy collar<\/p>\n
That costs fifty pound<\/p>\n
all of this killing this terror this pain<\/p>\n
It\u2019s why we \u00a0were there<\/p>\n
and \u00a0we came back again<\/p>\n
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For weeks on end<\/p>\n
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2014 the motliest of crews made it to Knightsbridge They wouldn\u2019t refuse Stood out in \u00a0all weathers having set up their stall Robert Platt and his team with banners and leaflets they went out full steam outside Harvey Nichol\u2019s … Continue reading