sold to the highest bidder
93,000 pine tree tax shelter
overgrown and scrubby
with cabbage palms and live oaks
dream forest
current home to bobcats,
deer, rabbits and racoon
a 60 acre pond out back
filled with catfish and bigmouth bass
and the occasional
10 foot gator basking
in that beautiful florida sunshine
soon to be a strip mall
and human habitat where
the bobcats will steal the neighbors cats
so the humans will trap the bobcats
the deer will eat up that $15,000 landscaping package
so the humans will poison them till they fry in the sun
the coons will build a den in the humans attics
until the humans will trap and poison them
the rabbits will dig up the over fertilized
well manicured green lawn
running into the pristine pond out back
creating a monstrous algael bloom
which will choke off the oxygen supply
the catfish and the bass will float to the top
and wash up on that bright green lawn
the flies will swarm
the red ants will flourish
the roaches will feast
the gator will go for a swim in the pool
and the humans will shoot him in the head
yes
keep building those roads
keep having babies
keep up with the Jones’
keep driving up taxes
but whatever you do
don’t fall in love with that
93,000 pine tree forest