Stupidity Street

                                                                                                   Photo by Michael Wolf

I used Michael Wolf's Painted Bunting photo above in a blog, on January 5th, about the trafficking of wild birds for the caged-bird trade.   I commented how 6,000 of these birds are taken each year in places like Mexico and Cuba.   My wife, Linda, read the blog and a few days later emailed me the poem below.   I had read this poem by Ralph Hodgson before, as have many birders and non-birders, but thought I would reproduce it here.
   

I saw with open eyes

Singing birds sweet

Sold in the shops

For the people to eat, 

Sold in the shops of

Stupidity Street.

I saw in vision

The worm in the wheat,

And in the shops nothing

For people to eat;

Nothing for sale in

Stupidity Street. 

Please comment if you wish

BtheB

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