David A. and the Gorillas - Tony Gardner

When David he came trampling through

Bringing all his gear and crew

Never asking if he could

Or not even if he should.

We looked, assessed this little bloke

Listened to the words he spoke

Then thought we’d better play along

Humour him, then he’d be gone.


Now all these years have passed and we

Hear he is coming back to see

How we have fared, if we are less

You must admire his nosiness

Truth is that Life is much the same

Not much changes in this game

It’s Nature's law that we live by

By Nature's whim we live or die.


Tony Gardner

Security Leak - Lyndon Queripel

With the atomic bomb
Man created his own destruction
A contradiction in terms
With fullest instruction
Now nuclear power
Is the spirit of the age
From behind the bar code
Of a computer cage

There are wars now
And rumours of war
The sorrow of tomorrow
Never known before
Buildings will crumble
And mountains will shake
The sky will fall
And the Earth will quake

With a shadow on the Sun
And tidal wave seas
False prophets will cease
To promise you peace
At the expense of defence
People will starve and cry
As fields burn out
And rivers run dry

Violence is not the answer
For the poor and weak
Or a last resort
To the turned cheek
The Earth is the inheritance
Of the blessed meek
And this is all due
To a security leak.

Lyndon Queripel

Something's Gonna Get Ya - Stephen A. Roberts

The dinosaurs never watched TV
But they knew they’d die eventually
Just something in the air they sensed
Wasn’t right, it was no coincidence

Bronty craned her neck to see
The approaching calamity
The Sun had gone she wondered why
No Pterodactyls crossed the sky

Tyrannosaurus wasn’t bored
He was working on his hoard
His massive bones were later found
With a pile of creatures all around

Even Stego the herbivorous charmer
Felt an itch beneath his armour
And worried that there might be a chance
That he’d soon run out of plants

So each of them found their own way
To face their final judgement day
And one by one they fell down dead
Asleep forever in their fossil beds

Stephen A. Roberts