Who Owns the High Street
Peter Bearder | 07.09.2005 09:58 | Culture | Oxford
A poem about every British highstreet, inspired by Oxford's slavery to private property and high fences...
Who owns the high street?
Who owns the park?
Who’s is this town anyway ,
Yours or ours?
Why are your fences?
Why are your locks?
How can you own something
Given by God?
Who owns these buildings,
The heritage the art?
Who owns this bus stop?
Its hurting my arse!
We don’t need a liscence
Do sing upon these streets
We don’t need permission
To find somewhere to sleep
We don’t want your shopping centre
Security guards
Controlled environments
Cant find my way out!
You can take away your chain stores
And their profits brung
You can take away Macdonalds
Poisoning our young
Give us back our misspent taxes
And give us back our air
Lets re-photosynthesize
This home this public sphere
Because the pigeons own the high street
The squirrels own the park
The beggars own the benches
We’re taking back what’s ours.
Who owns the park?
Who’s is this town anyway ,
Yours or ours?
Why are your fences?
Why are your locks?
How can you own something
Given by God?
Who owns these buildings,
The heritage the art?
Who owns this bus stop?
Its hurting my arse!
We don’t need a liscence
Do sing upon these streets
We don’t need permission
To find somewhere to sleep
We don’t want your shopping centre
Security guards
Controlled environments
Cant find my way out!
You can take away your chain stores
And their profits brung
You can take away Macdonalds
Poisoning our young
Give us back our misspent taxes
And give us back our air
Lets re-photosynthesize
This home this public sphere
Because the pigeons own the high street
The squirrels own the park
The beggars own the benches
We’re taking back what’s ours.
Peter Bearder
e-mail:
peter@bearder.com
Homepage:
http://www.bearder.com
Comments
Hide the following 2 comments
Very nice
07.09.2005 12:35
Pity it's a bit too long to make a stencil
Maybe, a stanza a stencil
anon
Could do better
09.09.2005 11:50
Dave Todd