{"id":724,"date":"2014-09-23T14:18:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=724"},"modified":"2014-09-23T14:18:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:18:31","slug":"life-itself-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/life-itself-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Itself For Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

The water we drink is up for sale
\nThat falls free from the sky
\nThe frackers for profit pollute the groundwater
\nIts danger they to all deny.
\nHorses for sale<\/a> and hens as well
\nWe do not now have the right
\nBut others can sell the water we drink
\nYet people fail to together against them fight.<\/p>\n

What is it about our enchanted island
\nOr are its people under a spell?
\nWe would not have stood for this in times of old
\nWhen water pure was drank from the well…
\nOr are we a nation of idiots,
\nWho to stand up for ourselves we fail
\nWhen it looks to the whole wide world
\nThat life itself is up for sale…<\/p>\n

Background:<\/strong>
\nAs fracking starts in Belcoo in Fermanagh, apart from the usual eco activists, there is little opposition to pollution of a shared water table for the Erne basin, and also the Shannon water table, from which we all drink.<\/p>\n

The water we do have to drink, we now have to pay for, and yet we stand idly by as our traditions are taken away<\/a>, from selling horses and hens at the Banagher Horse Fair<\/a>, unhelpful regulations, always for our own good, are brought in, making us criminals in our own country for living our lives as we always did.<\/p>\n

Im not a big believer in the anti flueride campaign, settling them in the same bracket as the anti windmill fanatics<\/a>, but our haplessness and apathy does beg one to wonder, are we under a spell as a nation?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The water we drink is up for sale That falls free from the sky The frackers for profit pollute the groundwater Its danger they to all deny. Horses for sale and hens as well We do not now have the right But others can sell the water we drink Yet …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,53,55,109,256],"tags":[969,663,912,111,891,798,972,970,112,973,971,132,974],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","category-civil-rights","category-current-affairs-in-ireland","category-environment","category-irish-heritage","tag-anti-fracking","tag-austerity-2","tag-banagher-fair","tag-belcoo","tag-blog-2","tag-capitalism","tag-consumerism","tag-eco","tag-fermanagh","tag-feww-water","tag-fluride","tag-fracking","tag-water-meter","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-bG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/well-of-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":724,"position":0},"title":"Well of Life","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"18th July 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Our groundwater is the well we all drink from. 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