Monday, March 19, 2012

"Progress"


Framed in a window   
is the picture of progress.   
Cars planted where   
wild grasses once grew.   
Telephone poles marching   
where oak trees towered.   
And we claim to be   
a modern civilization.   

It’s so brutal, our progress.   



Copyright 1975 Elizabeth Abrams Chapman

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