Marred Views Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Buildings and skyscrapers, marring a view of the city on the
10th floor of city hall.

Ugly concrete and steel pouring into the heavens with their
malodorous scent - stale and stagnating.

Clusters and rows clumped around town, completely blocking
views of beautiful, natural mountains and deserts.

Why are developers persisting in their materialistic
endeavors, while the public demands less of them and their
monstrosities?

Our wonderful desert has been trampled and built upon enough,
there is little left.

Phoenix is a desert community, we don't want Arizona to
become another ugly city.

To those of you who hate the desert and want to ruin it, we
say go home to your old trashy dumpsite cities and leave our
desert, mountains, and forests alone.

Snowbirds and developers leave - you have no homes here - you
and your businesses are unwanted to those of us who really
live here!

We were fine on our own and didn't ask you here to ruin and
pollute our once pristine Grand Canyon State.

Which incidentally, you have also trashed in your money-
hungry greed with motels and other unsightful buildings and
helicopter rides over our canyon.

Please just stay away and let our state be what it is meant
to be - a beautiful state filled with wonder and awe.