Keep The Humble Plastic Bag! Poem by Joe Hughes

It used to be the Irish,
The Jew, the Black man too,
But now it is the plastic bag -
Oh! How they do hate you!

We loved you once, you helped us lots,
In all your many types,
But now environmentalists
Have given you bad hype.

A loyal, quiet servant,
An emblem of our age,
You need a preservation order
To free you from your cage.

Your start in life demands crude oil,
They'll stop it - they insist,
But when they burn off oil instead
They'll boost our carbon print!

You are iconic of my time,
I still love you just the same,
But just like all relationships
I'd like for you to change.

I'd like to see you still so strong,
To be free in every shop,
You've got to be recyclable
So in my bin you'll drop.

I'd use you time, yes time again,
Your life would never stop,
Then all environmentalists
Would find other heads to chop!