Town Square

Riding on a midnight bus and through the window

I read the signposts like pages in a storybook

In the flare of a truck on the white line trail

I search the roadside

For West Tuconia, for Cantown, and for Kellybrook

Hook Mountain, Tylerville

And the bridge to Razor Ridge and Jasper Hill

Strike a match for a smoke and I look for the lake

They've drained and dried it

And built a foundry, a drive-in, and a Burger King

In the flatland, green once spread like a sheet

They've cleaned and cleared it

What are they thinking

Or don't they think of anything?

Hook Mountain, Tylerville

Where's the bridge to Razor Ridge and Jasper Hill?

We had better draw the line and form a circle

Around the town square, the steeple, and the library

And for each village green making way for a road

We'll block the highway

And say, "Enough now, enough now, won't you let it be?"

Hook Mountain, Tylerville

Save the bridge to Razor Ridge and Jasper Hill