In June Sid Saunders took action against Gloucestershire
incinerator and the prevalence of single use plastics by going on hunger strike
for 16 days. The protest overlapped with his birthday, I wrote this poem to
mark it. Please check out the link https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/man-vowed-starve-himself-hunger-1620266
Occupy Plastic
On the day of his birth
Sid pulses with the earth
Beautifully tethered to its worth
Not like that which he resists
A throw away culture still persists
Though in the light of his eyes it dwindles
That which is pulled from the bowels of the earth
To make a cameo appearance in the lives of humans
Then wretched and deformed it clings
to the worlds throat
Squeezing the life out of everything
People like Sid ask us to take note
To join in with our bodies and fertile minds
A natural intermingling for change
