they’ve cut down the big tree today,
bet it’s two hundred years old.
was old fifty years ago
when i was a kid.
before i ever thought of old
i saw it when i rode past
heading for the beach
on my bicycle.
recognized it then as a giant,
the largest trunk in town.
maybe old as the town. course fifty years ago,
they tore the town down too.
called it urban renewal
when they leveled the town.
promises were made,
but they never rebuilt it.
not the town, only city offices
police and fire department
had one police car then
have seventeen now.
urban renewal was for the city
officials and city workers,
not the down town, where the people
walked, shopped and gathered.
now this tree taken down.
makes way, it’s the future.
i’m telling you now,
they’ll never rebuild that tree.
Save some of the world as we know it for the children.
news out of Africa - they are talking of planting trees east to west, coast to coast to rebuff the encroaching Sahara desert.
Friday, June 18, 2010
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Where my husband grew up, they tore down the downtown when he was a teen, and they never rebuilt as it used to be. In other words, vacant land became parking lots, and/or eventually generic buildings with no character. Some of the downtown historic buildings remain, but he can tell you everything it used to be. For what possible reason did they tear down that old tree? Unless it was blighted, they should have done everything they could to preserve it.
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