Expert: Clare Washbrook - 5/19/2009

Question
i did a poem at school which i have been trying to find - it was about preparing for nuclear war and that the goverment was to provide possibly 10 million (or more) plastic body bags in different sizes with mickey mouse on the childrens on ones

Answer
Sharon,

It is called "Fifteen Million Plastic Bags" and it was written by Adrian Mitchell.  The full text is below.

I hope that helped,
CL Washbrook



"Fifteen Million Plastic Bags"


I was walking in a government warehouse
Where the daylight never goes.
I saw fifteen million plastic bags
Hanging in a thousand rows.

Five million bags were six feet long
Five million bags were five foot five
Five million were stamped with Mickey Mouse
And they came in a smaller size.

Were they for guns or uniforms
Or a dirty kind of party game?
Then I saw each bag had a number
And every bag bore a name.

And five million bags were six feet long
Five million were five foot five
Five million were stamped with Mickey Mouse
And they came in a smaller size

So I've taken my bag from the hanger
And I've pulled it over my head
And I'll wait for the priest to zip it
So the radiation won't spread

Now five million bags are six feet long
Five million are five foot five
Five million are stamped with Mickey Mouse
And they come in a smaller size.

-- Adrian Mitchell