BIG POLICE TAXI

late last night

i heard the tent fabric tear

& a big police taxi

took away my dna & heir

ooh bop-bop-bop
ooh bop-bop-bop (na-na-na-na-na)

they razed

the parking lot

that paved paradise
& 

put up a server farm

with a laminated strip mall

a doomsday clock
& 

a food-riot alarm

ooh bop-bop-bop
ooh bop-bop-bop (na-na-na-na-na)

PAVED PARADISE

they paved paradise
& put up a parking lot

thats privately owned with no revenue going to local services / with a payment system owned by another private company with no customer service & accessible only by smart phone with randomly increasing & inconsistent charges / next to a train station run by another private company that cant help with any carpark issues & is relentlessly bailed out by the government via the public purse

they paved paradise
& put up a parking lot

with no discounts for disabled visitors /  next to an understaffed hospital with an overworked a&e that then gets shut down for over priced 'affordable' rabbit hutch flats amid promises of more local health services at some unspecified point in the future / virgin anyone ?

they paved paradise
& put up a parking lot

that was reasonably priced / run by the local authority / handy for commuters / then sold it to a private company who shut it & left it shut for maybe ten years & counting / now its fly-tip heaven

they paved paradise
& put up a parking lot

which is free but is part of an ever sprawling shopping mall & retail park / all privately owned / no freedom of speech or protest there / a grotesque monument to our plastic cravings & msg jonesing / a temple of mammon with as many as three dozen  roundabouts but nothing in the way of pedestrian paths

they paved paradise
& put up a parking lot

for hgvs on green belt land by deciding it was brown belt land because in 1954 there was partial planning permission for a petrol station / never built / presumably because it was green belt land

they paved paradise
& put up a parking lot

which alan partridge says is 'a measure which would actually alleviate congestion on the outskirts of paradise / something which joni singularly fails to point out / perhaps because it doesnt quite fit in it her blinkered view of the world'

they paved paradise
& put up a fucking lot

from digitalspy.com

LONDONS ESTUARY BIN / ALL HAIL TRAFFIC

 
britain 
ever 
unruined ?

dodging potholes my whole life

long shadows on village green
soon build 
clusterfuck 
miniature flats 
there 

no cupboards
ground level balconies
four inches from bus queue

good access to unkillable bookies
see three from this library bench
one eye shut
half library shut

could be landfill
that village green 
or plague pit

a dick turpin gallows
rotted in rain

( the peasants revolted here
  you should see them now )

or proposed site 
of more sth east
thames crossing 
cement matrix

all hail traffic
driven driverless

jesus

they paved paradise
and put up a robot motorway

ha

they paved industry
and put up another pound shop

ha

hmm

shit

hello lake district
may we live in denial
on your misty shores ?

please

from misstech.com