Thumb in the Eye of the Gods by Richard Tornello

[TaoPhoenix]

Interesting - using Centered formatting to get really ugly line lengths as part of an effect.

Not sure what "hoas they hue" means.

hoa= Home Owners Associations,

hoa= Home Owners Associations,

Took me a while to get that one, too. Though it makes perfect sense once I (with the help of Mister McGoogle) figured it out.

Neat poem, Rick. These track developments are a scourge on the American psyche and culture. You put them in their place.

Well done.

BW

[Lester Curtis]

I don't know if development housing would rise to the level of offense given by the title or not . . . I can certainly think of worse things we've done as a species.

Anyway, I can't help recalling a song lyric, from about the time period when the Smothers Brothers had a regular TV show:

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside, and they all look just the same

Good job, Richard. In '86 I lived in New Orleans for a while, and was amazed at all the small square houses they had built on a flood plain. When the annual rains came, the homeowners were all angry and water-logged. I saw the Vietnamese in canoes harvesting turtles and snakes for supper. My point? - the gods can do what they will, but there'll be some who rise to the challenge. How anyone could benefit from a giant oil slick, however, is beyond even my ability to imagine.