For Joni

My dad always used to say,
'If you can't beat em, join em.'

Ain't that right, Joni Mitchell?

Cos they've paved over most of the trees now,
They’ve put up another parking lot,
But it didn't bother me,
No sir, not a bit.

Cos I'ma forage in bins,
I'ma graze out of supermarket aisles,
I'ma take a car by the horns, tame that and ride it about.
Sod the open fields for sustenance,
I got mushrooms growing in my bathroom.
Just like the indigenous peoples of wherever,
I listen out for the faint sound
Of the SatNav to navigate this difficult
Smooth terrain.
Took us 200,000 years to re-assemble carbon atoms
Into a microwave oven.
Took me thirty seconds henceforth to get my popcorn dammit.