Alexander Park, Vancouver 1948 They are taking down the beautiful houses once built with loving hand
Alexander Park, Vancouver 1948 They are taking down the beautiful houses once built with loving hands But still the old bandstand stands where no band stands With clawbars they have gone to work on the poor lovely houses above the sands At their callous work of eviction that no human law countermands Calously at their work of hearbreak that no civic heart understands In this pompous and joyless city of police moral perfection and one man stands Where you are brutally thrown out of beer parlors for standing where no man stands Where the pigeons roam free and the police listen to each pigeon’s demands And they are taking down the beautiful homes once with loving hands But still the old bandstand stands where no band stands. Poem Lament of the Pacific Northwest -- source link
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