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Wildlife

Wrote this about the inhumanity of man and corporate progress. The mowing was stopped by the frog on the hop The frog in the grass, so the mowing did stop The privets well, they just grew and grew I don't break birds eggs and no chicks do I kill The digging did stop when a worm I did see Worms look best whole, don't you agree This is just Scott's philosophy Wild life is sacred, well its sacred to me But the men with bulldozers, they don't give a damn When they build their new slip road across the farm land The seventeen oak trees they sawed to the floor The chicks and the birds eggs, well they were no more Its illegal to kill chicks if you know they are there But the construction officials, they do not care The road has to go where it says on the charts So they slaughter the wildlife. The men with no hearts

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Date: 9/3/2016 10:11:00 AM
Very true..Wildlife is being destroyed by humans... Thought provoking write...very well done...
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