My Slaves

(It has been estimated that the average energy consumption of a modern Western person is the equivalent of owning 8000 slaves. The amount of coal burnt annually took 1,000,000 to produce. Reference article in New Yorker, 2012)

I have 8000 slaves

but I might not have enough

some of them just don't seem to give a stuff

when I ask them to run faster

they rebuke their master

"Were all out of puff"

all their efforts go up in smoke

More than you can poke a stick at

while all the while I just get fatter

and diabetes flatters me.

Clouds of Co2 consume them

they find it hard to breathe

one sneeze and we'll reach the tipping point

one million years of trees is what it takes to

feed them

and they need that every year

How can they possibly keep pace with all my

needs?

I know that greed is good

but this is ridiculous

as I said to them just the other day

let's rip

now where in God's creation is my whip?

Pete RM Cuppaidge © 2012