Got The T-Shirt: Plastic Bag Blues
Steph Spiers brings a memorable blues anthem to the much-maligned plastic bag. Someone should set this to music.
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Who’d have thought carrying a plastic bag
could be as anti-social as having a fag?
Rejected like a Tibetan prayer flag
flapping in the branches of a tree,
while all they ever do is nag
on about having to pay a wretched 5p.
Who’d have thought carrying a plastic bag
could be as anti-social as having a fag?
Spare a thought for the humble plastic bag,
a pariah for doing its bit for landfill.
Giving its all with handles that sag,
struggling ’n mauling shopping up hill.
Who’d have thought carrying a plastic bag
could be as anti-social as having a fag?
Suspended from a thousand pushchairs,
’n ridiculed by artwork from many a Wag
in advertising, displayed on moving stairs,
the butt of wisecracks from men in drag.
Who’d have thought carrying a plastic bag
could be as anti-social as having a fag?
Superseded, replaced by stout canvas and rag
an end to eco-loathing from night until morn.
No more rips and tatters from every jag,
a fitting end to being crumpled, sworn at and torn.
Who’d have thought carrying a plastic bag
could be as anti-social as having a fag?
