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    1) The poem discusses how pollution and industrial waste have poisoned the natural environment and harmed wildlife at different levels of the ecosystem, from individual animals to entire habitats. 2) It describes how mercury poisoning killed a heron by making the fish it ate toxic, and how the fish then went on to poison other birds who ate them. 3) Industrial activity is presented as boasting that it poisoned an entire lake with mercury for the sake of profit, disregarding the damage to plant and animal life.

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    1) The poem discusses how pollution and industrial waste have poisoned the natural environment and harmed wildlife at different levels of the ecosystem, from individual animals to entire habitats. 2) It describes how mercury poisoning killed a heron by making the fish it ate toxic, and how the fish then went on to poison other birds who ate them. 3) Industrial activity is presented as boasting that it poisoned an entire lake with mercury for the sake of profit, disregarding the damage to plant and animal life.

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    A Poison Talk - Lyric

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    1) The poem discusses how pollution and industrial waste have poisoned the natural environment and harmed wildlife at different levels of the ecosystem, from individual animals to entire habitats. 2) It describes how mercury poisoning killed a heron by making the fish it ate toxic, and how the fish then went on to poison other birds who ate them. 3) Industrial activity is presented as boasting that it poisoned an entire lake with mercury for the sake of profit, disregarding the damage to plant and animal life.

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    Tuesday 30th of January 2018

    Poisoned Talk by Raymond Wilson

    Who killed cock robin?


    I, said the worm,
    I did him great harm.
    He died on the branch of a withered tree
    From the acid soil that poisoned me.

    Who killed the heron?


    I, mouthed the fish,
    With my tainted flesh
    I killed tern, duck and drake,
    All the birds of the lake.

    Who killed the lake?


    I, boasted Industry,
    I poisoned with mercury
    Fish, plant and weed
    To pamper mens’ greed.
    Who killed the flowers?
    I, moaned the wind,
    I prowl unconfined,
    Blowing acid rain
    Over field, flood and fen.

    Who killed the forest?


    I ensured that it died,
    Said sulphur dioxide.
    And all life within it,
    from earthworm to linnet.

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