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Trees are very valuable things
Pulling CO2 from the air
Providing animal habitats
And beauty everywhere
Much money comes from cutting them
A sad fact and conundrum
With Weyerhauser and the Treasury
Making money from ‘em
Outside the Box”
It’s worse than mixing
Metaphors
That the Interior department
Manages the outdoors
One Lie-ner
Unconventional orchestra conductors think outside the Bachs
Mr. Nice Guy
Mr. Nice Guy did yard work
It was his avocation
Cutting lawns from nine to five
Never taking a vacation
One day he up and left town
My dad was upset, here’s why
He said things would never be the same
Cuz there’d be no mower, Mr. Nice Guy
O Dandelion
O dandelion that I see
All beautiful and yellowy
Your hours are lowly numbered
Gardeners have you in their sights
Prepare for reading of last rites
Cuz you will soon succumber
A sunny, cheerful, common weed
That will not get to spread its seed
Because it is the target
Of pulling, yanking, and indeed
The chemicals in Weed and Feed
On sale at Garland’s market
Kevin Ahern is an Oregon State University professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics. In his retirement, he writes verses.
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