Only You Can Prevent....

Smokey the Bear tried to warn us not to play with fire nor matches Never any carelessness so near the flames A Bunsen's burner licks the glass cesium rubidium I listened till the dare undid the bear Consumed us with its hunger for the science and the gases instability of it Flicked us out the window of a sunny day Cricket dry the grass Knee deep in fag butts in litter by the underpass Flames trespass explode beyond us

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