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