Hometown Slash-n-Burn

 Doze the feed store,

Build a bank with a drive through.

Grain silos ornamented,

the town a Christmas tree.

It will be chopped down too.

 

Pave the roads,

Builders feast on our crops.

Once a cow pasture,

now a cross of two highways,

with a four way stop.

 

Remodel the buildings,

Pour the concrete.

The farmers throw up their hands.

A year of hard work,

now trampled by feet.

 

Rural to urban,

The profit hides the sin.

Big business robs a hometown.

Aimless citizens lost,

in the town they grew up in.

Reviews

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Progress can be a great thing but it also can be damaging when it ruins small towns, small businesses and more importantly keeps treading on nature with reckless abandon... a wonderfully intelligent vent.