Conservation Piece

The countryside must be preserved!

(Preferably miles away from me.)

Neat hectares of the stuff reserved

For those in need of flower or tree.

I’ll make do with landscape painting

Film documentaries on TV.

And when I need to escape, panting,

Then open-mouthed I’ll head for the sea.

Let others stroll and take their leisure,

In grasses wade up to their knees,

For I derive no earthly pleasure

From the green green rash that makes me sneeze.