in memoriam

Today I saw something horrible happen, it was sensless and sad.

A crime commited by the city I live in, at least it seems a crime to me.

To strong and healthy lives cut short and their remains left out in the open for all to see.

The city I live in decided to cut down to health maple trees right outside our front door.

If it had been humans I think we would all be aghast at the trucks coming in and choping all the limbs off them and putting them through the mulcher.

The thing that gets me is there really was no reason to do it that I can see. Prune them maybe if you must but to carve them up into little peices and leave their mutilated trunks there dieing.

But on top of that to waste full grown strong and healthy maple wood by just chipping and mulching it.

It changes the heat index of the front of the house, and now we can see clear down the street and ill repaired sidewalks, hear more of the ... city detritus. and we can see that ugly strange cement ... thing in our neighbors yard and we have no idea what it is... my guess is something to do with sewage, because I sure would swim in something that looked like that.

Not only is the shade gone but the green is gone. It makes the street look just that little bit more dead.

Despair city dwellers, look upon our lifeless asphalt expanse and despair, for we are your masters taking what light grows in the world and squelching it beneath our heel. So sayth the city god.

Take care of yourselves, and your green cousins.
Roving Jack