All them foreigners that move here
they always tell me that they’ve come
a searching for open spaces
cause cities made ’em feel so numb
They came out here to Montana
to a place where they could feel free
to bulldoze out the pristine streams
and to chop down the Aspen trees
To tear away the lodge pole pine
ponderosas and tamarack
to dig away the mountain side
and cram their houses back to back
They flatten out the rolling hills
to build a shopping mall or two
Built all them buildings so damn tall
their blocking out the mountain view
They’ve taken all the wildflowers
and laid down asphalt and cement
put solar panels on their roofs
’cause they save the environment
Should a deer wander into town
they want the law to do the deed
cause having wild critters around
is something that they just don’t need
They say that they feel better now
with all the beauty they can see
by sitting in their sealed off rooms
watchin’ nature shows on TV
Jerry Brotherton 
Your poem is great, Jerry. Please tell me it isn’t that bad, I feel so sad for all the nature and for people who love living there.
miriam
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It is pretty bad when you will be fined if your caught feeding the deer inside city limits, and you have to add in all the Hollywood types that buy up 50000 acres or more and fence it all off so no one can visit. At least Montana passed a law a few years ago that you had to give access to the rivers for fishing.
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Yeah, you’ve got ’em pegged.
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for sure
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Never understood people’s need to “escape” to open spaces only to build what they ran from.
Great poem!
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You’re right about that. Thanks for dropping in.
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