The Incinerator at Javelin Park

We got up too late for the revolution,

And a winter walk along the lanes

Meant we missed the demonstration too -

The one in Stroud against Balfour Beatty

(‘Balfour Beatty is a multinational infrastructure group with capabilities in construction services, support services and infrastructure investments’),

And the proposed incinerator at Javelin Park;

So no more star gazing on frosty winter nights,

Or westward reading a history of time,

In River Severn or Sugar Loaf mountain sunsets;

No more fossils in Cotswold quarries,

No more holloways and Neolithic earthworks;

No more sluice gates, weirs and water wheels,

No more factory, forge or railway stations;

Instead, the taste of a new monument,

A monument to the Holocene Era,

And to the Anthropocene.

Period.

End

Of.