Over the meadows and through the woods,
To Xaviera's house we go!
Washington has its 'Happy Hookers'
Amsterdam has the Red District center,
Germany has it's Eros Centers,
Nevada has it's bordellos,
Prostitution has been around since time immemorial,
The Romans in Pompeii and the Greeks in Delos.
Today prostitution is giving the Italian government test,
Far removed from cities of Rome, Florence and Naples,
In the woods.
An Italian region struggling with policing the sex trade along a heavily wooded road has come up with a novel solution:
-Just chop down the forest.
Suddenly Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi come into mind:
They took all the trees
And put them in a tree museum
Then they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go,
That you don't know what you've got
‘Til it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
By let me non-digress from the matter which is at hand,
A non-masturbatory hand in case the witch, pardon me,
(Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell of Delaware) ]
Is reading this.
The Italian government is going to deforest the area of Abruzzo
To curb the rampant sex trade on the road which is called Bonifica del Tronto.
Cruisin' for hookers in the woods unabated by video surveillance and a occasional raid.
'Finally, Angelo di Paolo, the regional government's notoriously decisive public works chief, decided that fighting the forest would be much easier then fighting the sex trade.'
'He declared that all the vegetation on or around the banks of the River Tonto (High, Hold Silver comes to mind) would be cut down.'
There would be a stark landscape around his town.
The ladies, or gentlemen, of the evening, or day,
Will find a different place to continue their trade,
And by the way,
Has Italy looked into a Red Light district?
After all, the Vatican has been hiding pedophiles priests morally flawed with decadence, -without jurisprudence,
What should the Italian government do,
- burn St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Library and it's museum?
10-25-2010
http: //www.aolnews.com/world/article/italy-plans-to-denude-forest-to-fight-prostitution/19676228? icid=main|classic|dl1|sec3_lnk3|178267
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem