He's a funny, lefty, enviro, poet-guy

Poetry month, Day 25: British poet, Benjamin Zephaniah, is all that and a whole lot more besides.

Solidarity
An army of militant greens
In bio-degradable genes
Shout 'Give peas a chance
And lettuce all dance
In unity wid butter beans.'


Who's Who
I used to think nurses
Were women,
I used to think police
Were men,
I used to think poets
Were boring,
Until I became one of them.

--Benjamin Zephaniah


from Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah. Puffin Books, 1994.

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