Civilization

Civilization They take root and sprout up like the corn that used to fill these fields. Acres of grassland, fertile farmland, and the houses grow day by day. Trucks filled with house parts, baseboards, light fixtures, windows, sinks and toilets, concrete for driveways ply the muddy streets, soon to be covered with macadam. Forests decimated, their precious oxygen gone as the logs are hauled away to the paper mill. Nature gives way to more civilization. Animal habitat destroyed. The tracts mushroom, first one, then two, then a hundred, a thousand. Houses complete, lawns are tended, concrete covers patios, everything neat and tidy a paean to overpopulation.