“Council Meeting” (a poem)

The latest uproar: to allow Wendy’s
to build another fast-food burger shack
on two acres of wetlands near Raccoon Creek,
or to permit the conservationist
 
well-to-do citizenry to  keep their green
space and thus assure long, unsullied views
from their redwood decks, picture windows,
and backyards chemically rich as golf greens.
 
The paper’s rife with spats, accusations,
pieties both ways. Wendy’s promises
flowers, jobs. The [...]

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