They're putting up a Wal-mart at the edge of town,
adding to the sprawl and softening
the town limits with a slab of asphalt-
this is no one person's fault, this is progress,
for without the steady spread and growth of
strip malls the economy regresses, and
the weeds in empty lots grows tall.
So welcome! Wal-mart! Starbucks! and
celebrate the death of a small town.
Ayn Timmerman
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-death-of-a-small-town/
