2030 what are you like?
A poem created at the Wondermentalist’s Cabaret by the audience December 2008
Like 1930 but 100 years older
Free vegetable gardens on every roadside ditch
More communal meals – let’s eat the rich
Upside down and back to front
You’re beautifully seedy, much less greedy – not needy
2030, the outlook is bleak
But will it mean I’ll be more of a freak?
Will there still be seven days in the week?
Or are we on a winning streak?
Totnes Castle, covered in grass,
Your-round salads, rather than grass
Pavilions potatoes, Civic Hall spuds
Bridgetown bananas, not Follaton Floods
2030 – Happy and dirty, gardening madly, hair-drying badly,
Shivering or baking, digging and co-operating,
Alive and connected or ill and dejected.
Water mills, windmills, tank traps, mines,
Get off this land, it’s all mine
More toil, less toiletries
More bluebells, less consols
More ‘we’, less ‘wii’ !!
No salad dressing? Oil live without.
For oil and gas we really won’t care
Our energy will come from what we share
72 and 11/12, canning, jamming, baking, making wonder woman
Voluptuous vegetables
Windmills, hydroelectric power and cycle lanes
The year is 2030, I’m 66, old and dirty, and the planet isn’t far behind,
the filthiness raging through my senile mind
2030, I’ll be 74 then! We’ll walk everywhere. And maybe, we’ll smile more.
Age 60, you and me, 2030, flirty, fungus-munching, down’n’dirty
Smelling gloriously of woodsmoke
You warmed to Totnes and didn’t peak too early
2030 – Jerri’s bird has had a son
Who’s left the trifle for an organic bun…
Like 2029, but just a little bit older
Older, wiser, with the wry smile of a Bodhisattva
But that’s another chapter
Re-open the old railway lines
2030, when all done and said, I might be peaceful, possibly dead
Six foot under, in a biodegradable box,
Pushing up daisies, generating organic compost!
The new solar-powered Tate Totnes opens to rave reviews
With Damien Hirst’s piece “Scrotum Pole” polarizing views
Hopefully we’ll have invented teleportation…
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