Nature's wildflowers mowed and burned,
covered over in words, rock and
pavement spread by the government.
Don't put a flower in your hair.
Covered over in words and rock,
fields of white crosses rows on rows.
Walls contain names of those that died.
Children trade limbs for sticks and wheels.
Pavement spread by the government,
stained, flawed, cracked and full of pot holes,
patched with more pavement and reasons
why words are not harder than guns.
Don't put a flower in your hair
or sing songs of peace to the world.
Parking lots are all pavement but
dandelions grow in the corner.
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