Oh, Joni, look what we’ve got:
Not just simply a parking lot!
They’ve gone and let something many deplore;
They’ve put up a gosh, darn dollar store!
It’s sad that the vision is notably thin
Of appointed and chosen –
A few, mostly good men.
Who perhaps with intention
Of giving monetary might,
Added to a neighborhood’s developing blight.
The first they said a developer may
Put condos on Shadow Lane just up from the bay.
And now in its backyard, and Adams Street, too,
They’ll add noise, pollution and blocking of view.
So what of estates arrayed on the bay,
They’d rather have a dollar store
Moored in their way!
No notice to neighbors,
They do as they please –
No mention the canopy less 23 trees!
There was land east of here
Where there’s already a strip,
But no push for that came out of their lips.
I fear that the vision is terribly thin:
Does no one remember a pledge somewhere when
Prime was the history, prime was the bay,
Prime was in keeping it simply that way?
Oh, Joni, look what we’ve got:
Not just simply a parking lot!
They’ve gone and let something many deplore
They’ve put up a gosh, darn dollar store!
