if you go down to the sea again
to the lonely sea & the sky
you'll know why it's so lonely
when the filthy tide is high
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| Venus on the world's first surfboard would surely find the pong too strong mermaids swimming in the sewage soon browned off would cease their song
this isn't just a load of bullshit likely to become ex-stinkt sinking fast in our own faeces
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connoisseur of manure (pigshit!)
[with apologies to John Masefield & Botticelli]
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Wrote that verse in mid 1970s. A version of it was broadcast on
BBC2 TV. Wasn't paid for it but asked for a copy of the accompanying
cartoon caricature which they had used to illustrate my words & they
sent me the original large artwork, reproduced above.
Was pleased to discover photographic artist, Chris Jordan, had also adapted Botticelli's well-known image for his Venus 2011:
Zooming in, to use his words, it "depicts 240,000 plastic bags, equal to the estimated number of plastic bags consumed around the world every ten seconds."
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