Friday, March 10, 2023

"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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