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very near to my house

the earth is now daily being raped

by such big thuggish men

in even bigger bulldozers

the unwanted witnessing of such

sad atrocity while simply just

driving by can not be escaped

the exposed and defeated bright

red clay mud

stares so angry back at me

like some dying caged animal

filled with such fear, rage and blood

such brutal devastation

only manages to make me cry

all the harder

for all those poor innocent murdered

trees

but the underdog in me shouts

you just wait

they will be quite sorely missed

one day

especially

should there happen to be

a terrible flood

all that loose red clay will unleash

its wrath on that man made parking lot

until its goodbye 'Mess Of Man's Unnecessary

Modernization'

and hello again grass and new baby trees

oh but how I just love it when Mother Nature

brings the over arrogance of man to his

trembling knees and sets him back in his so

rightful place

at her beck and call

under her inflexible thumb

able to destroy him

in mere seconds

whenever she chooses to exert her

supreme will......................

(May 9, 1998)