Charmouth's Revenge

While I was on my holiday I came across a fantastic poem from a local poet.
Here is Charmouth's Revenge by Gordon Judge:

The residents of Charmouth say they’ve seen it all before,
“As soon as chunks of cliff break off and slide down on the shore,
Geologists arrive in hordes. It happens every time,
And all the B&Bs are filled from here along to Lyme.

Our coast erodes at rapid rates each time there’s storms and gales,
But weather’s not the only thing that eats away our shales:
Those rock-hounds come and hack away at landslips that aren’t stable.
We put up signs and cordon off as much as we are able,

And warn ‘em not to risk their lives, but do they listen? No,
They hurry past us to the beach – so we just let ‘em go.
If they get buried, ‘tis their fault; it should be no surprise.
‘Tis not our job to dig ‘em out – we let ‘em fossilise!”

Poem written by Gordon Judge and published in Shoreline (News and Views from Charmouth) Summer 2011 (gordon.judge1@virgin.net) From GeoVerse 2004 and 2009.