Resist the urge to pave across your lawn
If concrete choice you have.
For have you heard
A third of Blighty’s gardens have now gawn,
One hundred parks the size of Hyde interred1
Beneath the ‘limestone’ slabs of B and Q,
The driveway blocks that Mazda, Jeep or Ford
Might stand beside your home and spoil your view
Of others’ parking bays that once were sward?
And if the tarmac is already hard,
The slabs stuck down, the brick blocks bound,
Then shift the wheels from where you’ve had them carred,
And take your pick! Restore the earthy ground.
Make green your crescent, surface flooding2 curb,
Call hedgehog3, sparrow, thrush4
back to your ‘burb!
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