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Salt-o-the-Earth
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6) NO WORD YET FOR SUCH HYPOCRISY Maybe someday Some federal judge will notice There’s nary a storm sewer on the UCSC campus. … must be the only project Anywhere in the developed world-- Of such size-- Up on a mountain-- Without even one storm sewer. And it’s in a place Where the rain falls hard! And just as you would expect Gashes have now grown Forty feet deep In the face of the mountain. The mud from those wounds Flows right into froggie’s only remaining pond. There’s no other place it could be going! Do you suppose that someday Some federal judge won't notice? Not every judge is stupid and dumb. It says right on the internet That it takes just one red-legged froggie To make a whole watershed a froggie habitat. How many froggies do you have to count Before you get up to one? And--Shades of Bill Clinton!-- How much of watershed Could be meant by "whole watershed"? And it says right on the internet That you can’t monkey around In any kind of way In a froggie habitat. What if you've put roaring traffic Right through the middle of froggie's habitat? What if you're responsible for creating a trap That flushes froggie's family down a dark terror hole? It says specifically Right on the internet That you mustn't pour mud into places Where froggie breeds. What if you're pouring it in by the ton? Not just a little mud, But megatons From the wounds in the face of the mountain! It says in black and white In many places That UCSC cares about the environment And even teaches about it. Someday some federal judge might say, "Chancellor, I do believe you've been feeding someone a line. You've not been teaching as you say. You've been demonstrating how to evade the law. You expect me to believe that if You dump water down the nearest hole It simply goes away? Now take me out and show me What you've done." |
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