Memo to hikers: Keep going
We blew up the power station
because they said it was ugly.
Someone complained
on the grounds of
noise pollution,
said we’d woken their baby up.
Someone else whined
that the dust was
harmfully thick,
said they were breathing strange.
Someone grumbled
that we woke them up
too early every morning,
‘The towers used to
block out the sun,’
they said.
There was a meeting
in the town hall.
They called us
reckless, wild,
hasty, rash,
heedless and accountable.
So for PR purposes
we blew up the town.
