The Last Pieces of the World

By Matthew Franklin

When man cannot breathe his air anymore?
Or drink the water on earth?

This short book is an observation of our planet in the 21st century and a glimpse at perhaps the last pieces of the world. Of an elemental nature, at times, poetical and inspired by art and exhibits by the artist and author. Apocalyptic fiction born out of reality. (Sample from the book) entitled:

‘Packet Salmon’

“Farm me in a small space and kill me when you are ready.
Send me on a journey wrapped in plastic sleeves.
Stick me on a lorry for all you to receive.

Keep your birds in cages, and keep your fish in tanks.
To show all man and beast, how high the human ranks.”

‘Burnt, Still Bleeding’

“ They had wealth, they had property, they had standing.

Now they do not have wealth, or property and they are
not standing.

They are burnt and still bleeding.”

It is a simple book about all that sustains us, hard fact woven into fiction.
About Trees, Water, Air, Earth, Fire, Light and People.

Matthew Franklin is a writer and sculptor of 25 years, selling a number of books under pseudonyms. He does not engage in social media and has a website listing his artwork. He has travelled widely, creating sculptures, treehouses and books, often handmade. Now settled in England, since 2017, he no longer travels abroad by toxic means and lives with his partner and two children. They aim to build a low impact dwelling and continue to grow much of their own food.

His work has caught the attention of both local and mainstream radio and television and he has been highly commissioned for his often recycled material pieces. With strong environmental themes, he has exhibited professionally for many years and his books (under pseudonym) have been in Waterstones books and discussed by the BBC. Very much from an eco movement, prior to being an artist and writer, he had several bicycle shops.
In recent years, his work has become quite sought after and collectable.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Sep 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781716610974

Book preview

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Cloud Lays Injured

No More Religion

Beachside Apartments, 3 Degrees of Sinking

Honey Clone (No More Bees)

Packet Salmon

48 Years

Tree Crying

Sunburnt City, No Trees

Peering out of the Last Snow

Collapsed (Climate Crisis Response Building)

The Last Tree (Bleeding)

City of Gold

The Last Fish

The Last Wave

Riches to Rags

Burnt, Still Bleeding

Bent Rainbow

The Last Piece of Wood

Future Gold

Golden Beach, No Tourists

Empty Desert, No Camels

Beehive Clone on Sunlit Tree

The Last Cloud

Mother Earth

Earth Rolls

The Bridge

Cloud Drones Over Pyramid

Man Oblivious

Man had lost his way, he was out of step with nature’s pace. He could no longer look Earth in the eye, because on the whole, he was too far away to do so. Biting the hand that fed him, he disregarded the health of the massive resource he stood upon - earth. Like a baby, he made gurgling noises when ideas too much for him arose, like science and devastation.

Blind to his daily destruction or too comfortable to change his ways. Even when the enormity of the problem hit him in the face, the extinction of the human race, it were as if man lacked eyes to see or ears to hear, or lips to speak up. As if he had no head at all!

Yet he still proudly declared his success, oblivious of the consequences.

Acid Rain Fish

And as the