As I've said in poem #209, when people lose their own culture, society suffers - be it English, Aboriginal, or any other.

For the curious, here is WAV #209: PEOPLE LOSE

                   Where, through modern views,
                        Traditions fall-
                            Watch the news -
                               People
                               Lose.

For one who's so concerned about culture & tradition, WAV, you seem to spend a lot of time watching TV, which is, arguably, the single most significant factor in the loss of traditional culture there is. But I don't think that's too bad really; I only listen to folk when I'm at the folk club, the rest of the time I'm listening to anything but - jazz, hip-hop, dub reggae, drum & bass; hell, in the car yesterday we were listening to Dolly Parton's Halos & Horns, and what a damn fine record it is too, especially These Old Bones!

Anyhoo, reading on from WAV #209, we come across WAV #210: SOME-DESIGNERS' DIAPHANOUS ERRS

                     What will be next -
                        Catwalk models
                      Showing pussy
                        As well as breast?

Is this a personal wish, WAV? Because even from ancient times models have shown a lot of, erm, pussy, so I dare say it's simply a matter of waiting & seeing; after all, what goes around comes around.

And then there's WAV #211, perhaps my favourite of them all: AT FRONT LINES

I can't suckle a baby -
    God planned on some divisions;
Women are with war-weapons -
    We have fallen morally.

So God planned that did he? Nice to see he got it so terribly wrong as with everything else! Anyway, I like a woman in uniform, preferably one with a AK47 held to her bosom, thus deadlier than any male ever could be if only because of her instinctive / God-given maternalism & unwillingness to tolerate such paternalistic bullshit.

...and our society, sadly, HAS gone down - drugs, gun-crime, prostitution, broken-families, etc.

No, WAV, these things have always been there, just these days we entertain ourselves by watching them on TV so it just seems more prevalent. Drugs is cool (folk music without drugs? Can any of us take a singaround completely sober?); gun-crime has existed as long as we've had guns - I'm more concerned about knives to tell you the truth & we've had knives since the stone-age, prostitution likewise, and broken / dysfunctional families. Hell, what would the folk singing morris dancing social workers do without them? So - business as usual I'd say, and no amount of folk singing is going to change it; reflect upon it maybe. In fact, I've just this minute been singing I Was a Young Man, which is as choice a tale as familial dysfunction as you're ever likely to get...