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Monday, 5 September 2022

An Appeal

An Appeal

It’s time to think of those less fortunate

So here is tonight’s charity appeal

It’s a cause that’s worth your attention

A situation that you might help to heal

 

It’s a real crisis, ladies and gentlemen

For which funds are urgently needed

To help save this endangered species

With a warning that must be heeded

 

It’s your chance to help the vulnerable

For it has come to our attention of late

That the human race is heading for extinction

And needs to face up to its fate

 

Humans are such beautiful creatures

That once were happy and healthy

But now they’re losing their habitat

In the pursuit of making themselves wealthy

 

Once they roamed all over their planet

But now there are so few left in the wild

Through pollution and starvation

There’s little chance for even a child

 

War, genocide and famine

They’ve endured each one of these

But they’ve failed to learn any lessons

And now suffer pestilence and disease

 

Just ten billions could make all the difference

Twenty-five would help ease some of their pain

Fifty would buy a survival kit or a gas-mask

A hundred wouldn’t be flushed down the drain

 

Please send whatever you can

Any cash you’re willing to spare

Show these humanoids that there’s a future

That somebody out there still cares

 

Just send it to this Freepost address

And if you’re in the slightest of doubt

Then mark the back of your envelope

Please stop buggering about!

 Copyright Andy Fawthrop 2022

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