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[Steve Hart <stevenlawrencehart@gmail.com>]

Great poem Bob. After you have had a visit to your local elected city
representative you may have to take your gang down to city hall and kick a
few doors in. Let them know that they in fact do not own anything but are
purely your servants who administer activity, maintain and keep on your
behalf.

Time for some realisation of the law of where you and they stand how and
why. Social Permaculture. Steve Hart

On 4 September 2014 23:10, Bob Waldrop <bob@bobwaldrop.net> wrote:

> So it came to pass that I went outside this afternoon and was greeted by
> the noise of industrial scale machinery slashing my prairie roses that grew
> along my curb between my house and the street.  The city employee's
> attitude was "go away, we're the City, we do what we damn well please. They
> obstruct the view of the stop sign."  Which wasn't true.  The stop sign was
> perfectly visible a half block down the street.
>
> So we quickly pulled on our gloves and dragged all the slashed plants
> behind our fence, must to the consternation of the City employee who said
> "Hey, the City will come and pick up that trash." Of course, it wasn't
> trash, it was valuable organic matter, but I didn't feel like giving him a
> lesson in urban organic landscape maintenance.
>
> Picture attached of the pile of slashed plants, also mashed down were some
> of my Jerusalem artichokes.
>
> I am not much of a poet, but here is a lament I penned this afternoon in
> mourning for my roses.
>
> A  Lament for the Roses
>
> Straight and tall,
> By the roadside all,
> Flowers of this place
> Shimmering like lace.
>
> Now we grieve,
> Pink blossoms and leaves,
> Quickly slashed and trashed,
> By know nothings smashed.
>
> Slash and burn!
> No earthly concern.
> Kill, destroy, and hurt,
> Hope they disconcert.
>
> Turn our eyes,
> Upon unholy lies,
> Run away from fools,
> With the souls of ghouls.
>
> Destruction
> Brings now instruction.
> Hope we will awake,
> Tyrants now must quake.
>
> Cycles learn.
> Flowers will return.
> Soon now comes the day
> Hurts and fears give way.
>
> Love the path,
> Soothes powers of wrath,
> Tomorrow we plant,
> Doom may yet recant.
>
> Perhaps not.
> Karma we have wrought.
> Cities crash and burn.
> If we do not learn.
>
> Bob Waldrop, Okie City
> http://www.ipermie.net
>
>
>
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Kia ora

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*Steve Hart*
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