Supermarkets are just sooooo last year. In 2008, with a global crops crisis upon us, we’re all turning to growing our own. Food for thought, reckons Brendan Hawthorne.
Supermarkets are expected to go to seed
Now we’re priced out beyond our convenience need
Shopping trolleys no longer filled to busting
They’ll soon be left in car parks slowly rusting
Food miles have taken shoppers round the block
To plant centres where it’s said we’re taking stock
Turning gaily planted window boxes into Eden projects
And laying down allotments where we once had decks
Will we really rip up those hard-faced block paved drives
To plant out potatoes in neat and ordered rows of fives
Replace garages with greenhouse seedling nurseries
Give bunches of leeks on birthdays and anniversaries?
And as petrol prices compare with that of a fine single malt
Will shed distilleries fuel desires for a price rise halt?
Just how would Gordon’s diminishing tax add value
To an over-cooked economy aimed at the rich list few?
And even if we citizens become so eco-socially aware
There’ll be new initiatives put in place so better beware
The Veg Wardens will be out there with tickets to enforce
And fine those growing more than their quota and resource
As our ancient farmlands are progressively turned over to waste
And are left to lay foundations for building programme haste
A last gasp Great Britain is seen punching well below weight
Left to grow produce in a bloated and toxic outpost estate
