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Environment

These environmental wizards who decide how things should be
Have made a lengthy list of the things worth more than you and me;
Lizards weeds and bushes, these learned scholars think,
Should now become of ward of state, lest they become extinct.

They scold us like a wayward child for making such a fuss,
When we find that bugs and barn rats have more civil rights than us.
The mice that curse our home-sights and whose names we take in vain,
Can sue if you call in the cat- to trap him is inhumane.

And can't cut trees for lumber, 'cause the owls out on a limb,
And I wonder, are they gonna let us bunk up there with him?
And when man becomes endangered by environmental laws,
Who will gird their loins for battle in the name of human cause?

Or if man keep doing business with this type of protocol,
The bugs the rats and flies will have the last laugh on us all.

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