They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Posted on June 25, 2011 by pendantry

I saw Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi on YouTube the other day. What a great voice!

It reminded me of my poem Paradise Unpaved. Oh, and that a bigger bucket is never a cure for a leaky roof.

Enjoy! (Maybe sadly, but still, with hope.)

About pendantry

Phlyarologist (part-time) and pendant. Campaigner for action against anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and injustice in all its forms. Humanist, atheist, notoftenpist. Wannabe poet, writer and astronaut.
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3 Responses to They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

  1. Gail says:
    June 25, 2011 at 12:21

    You must have been thinking of English lawns fertilized and mown by sheep, in that poem. This is silly, but an accurate description of the travesty of the American lawn:

    http://palingates.blogspot.com/2011/06/open-thread-wednesday_22.html

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