In Genoa, in Rio, in Kyoto,Everywhere youth in the leadAgainst locusts' greed,'Love, not War' their motto.A growing floodIts anger fostersAgainst global monstersWho suck Earth's blood. They face bullets, they face gas,They don't hesitateThrough flames to pass;Thus, the current grows,Challenging greed's rate -'The river flows!'Concern for the global situation was Christos Christidis's incentive for Plain Sonnets - a collection of poetry in which bitter language and irony describes a greedy, biased, self-catastrophic and wolfish humankind, but is also balanced with an optimistic view for a better world based on peaceful bonds and shared humanity.AUTHOR BIO:CHISTOS CHRISTIDIS was born in Piraeus, Greece. He is a graduate of Athens University, School of Philosophy, and has a PhD from the University of Reading, England. He has mostly worked in the Greek education system and, voluntarily, in various non-government organisations concerned with the global situation.