TheBanyanTree: Nightmare on Rose St

[Woofess]

I like your philosophy Tom Smith:)

And I am gonna copy it:)

And for a bit of of a giggle in all the gloom, they had to get in the 
heavy duty dudes and their heavy duty machines to dig out the stumps on 
a number of trees... one root system was over 3 tons in weight! It took 
them the best part of the day. HAH!!

The heavy duty dudes are nice dudes and they hate killing trees. The 
senior heavy duty dude who was just driving the heavy duty truck,  said 
he has planted over 2.5 million trees, because his main business is as a 
tree nurseryman in a place called Marble Bar where he plants trees for 
mine companies.

Folks who want to destroy trees just make him shake his head, unbelievably.

W:)

  to On 24/04/2013 8:19 AM, Tom Smith wrote:
> A poem with a punch, Woof.  It hurt.
>
> Seems like one of the first orders of business when a house
> is sold in my area, is for a big tree on the property to get cut
> down.  Breaks my heart.
>
> So far, the best cure I've found is to plant one.  This spring,
> I planted THREE, an apricot, sweet lime and a loquat.
>
>
>>             Nightmare on Rose St
>>
>>             No sound of bird song
>>             Punctuates the air
>>             Instead the futile screams
>>             Of trees' death throes,
>>             And the howl of chainsaws
>>             Rend the canvas of the day.
>>             Mute bare earth now remains.
>>             And the birds have gone.


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Best regards,

Woofie

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"The one constant in life is absurdity" - Woofie - 30/4/02

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