Bats or Newts? A Lament
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Words: Jon Swales
Music: Sad Emotional Piano- Copyright Free Music via YouTube
“Bats or great crested newts?”
“Neither, because I want growth,” Rachel Reeves. The Times Interview- Quick Fire Questions
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‘Bats or Great Crested Newts?’
‘Neither,
because I want growth.’
And the earth exhales,
a long, low breath,
threaded with dust and diesel.
Once, we were called to tend and keep,
to walk with care
among the creatures of feather and scale,
but now we measure worth
in units of concrete and steel.
The hum of engines drowns out
the song of the land.
Economic growth has become…
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