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Way back in the days when the grass was still green \\{}
and the pond was still wet \\{}
and the clouds were still clean, \\{}
and the song of the Osprey rang out in space\dots{} \\{}
one morning, Merlo’s L-P came to this glorious place. \\{}
And there were the trees! \\{}
The Redwood Trees! \\{}
The bright-colored tufts of the Redwood Trees! \\{}
Mile after mile in the fresh morning breeze. \\{}
And, under the trees there were big cats and deer \\{}
frisking about in their cat \& deer suits \\{}
as they played in the shade and ate Redwood fruits. \\{}
From the rippulous river \& pond \\{}
came the comfort, the comfortable sound \\{}
of the Salmon a-spawning \\{}
while splashing around.

Ol’ Harry Merlo the Baron of L-P \\{}
Didn’t see any of that tranquility \\{}
All he saw were the Redwood Trees. \\{}
But those trees! Those trees \\{}
Those Redwood Trees \\{}
All his life he’d been itching \\{}
O how he’d been scheming \\{}
O how he wanted \\{}
to cut down those Redwood Trees! \\{}
In no time at all, he set down a great L-P Mill - Plop! \\{}
He cut down a million Redwood with one chainsaw chop! \\{}
And with great belchy stinks and with great toxic spills \\{}
he took that sweet wood; chewed it up in his mill.

The instant he’d finished he heard a ga-Zump! \\{}
He looked. \\{}
He saw something pop out of the stump \\{}
of the tree he’d chopped down: \\{}
She was old; she was young; \\{}
she lived in the woods; she lived in town; \\{}
she had lots of kids; she lived all alone; \\{}
she had a clenched fist and her brilliant eyes shone. \\{}
“Mister!” she said with a sawdusty sneeze, \\{}
“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. \\{}
I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. \\{}
And I’m telling you, sir, at the top of my lungs - \\{}
Sir! You are crazy with greed. \\{}
These words you must heed: \\{}
Stop cutting these trees! \\{}
STOP CUTTING THESE TREES! \\{}
I repeat,” cried the Lorax, \\{}
“I speak for the trees!"

“I’m busy,” Merlo told her. \\{}
“Shut up, if you please.” \\{}
And then\dots{}

Oh! Baby! Oh! \\{}
How Merlo’s L-P did grow! \\{}
Now, chopping one tree \\{}
at a time was too slow. \\{}
So he quickly brought in his great Feller-Buncher \\{}
which whacked off four Redwood Trees with one cruncher. \\{}
He was making board-chips \\{}
four times as fast as before!

But the next week \\{}
the Lorax knocked on \\{}
Merlo’s L-P Office Door. \\{}
She snapped, “I’m the Lorax who speaks for the trees \\{}
which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please. \\{}
But I’m also in charge of big cats \& the deer. \\{}
They can’t drink the water \\{}
and they can’t breathe the air! \\{}
Now if they can’t, \\{}
I can’t either!” she said, \\{}
“And you can’t think \\{}
when sawdust fills up your head! \\{}
You’re glopping the river where salmon once hummed! \\{}
No more can they hum, for their gills are all gummed. \\{}
So they’re dying off. O their future is dreary. \\{}
They’ll walk on their fins and get woefully weary \\{}
in search of some water that isn’t so smeary."

And then Merlo got mad. \\{}
He got terribly mad.

He yelled at the Lorax, “Now listen here, witch! \\{}
All you do is yap-yap, and bitch-bitch-bitch-bitch! \\{}
Well, I have a duty to stockholders (I want it all) \\{}
\& I’m telling you: \\{}
I intend to go on doing just what I do! \\{}
And for your information, you Lorax, I’m figgering \\{}
on biggering \\{}
~~~and BIGGERING \\{}
~~~~~~and BIGGERING \\{}
~~~~~~~~~and \textbf{BIGGERING} \\{}
turning more Redwood Trees into chips ‘n boards \\{}
which everyone, everyone, EVERYONE hoards!”

At that very moment, they heard a loud whack! \\{}
From outside in the fields came a sickening smack \\{}
of an axe on a tree. \\{}
Then they heard the tree fall. \\{}
The very next-to-last Redwood Tree of them all! \\{}
Almost no more trees. No more boards. \\{}
No more work to be done.

So, in no time Merlo, his Bobby, \\{}
his Company men every one \\{}
will wave good-bye. They’ll jump \\{}
into Company Cars \& drive away \\{}
under the smoke-smuggered stars. \\{}
And the Workers, the loggers \\{}
will be left ‘neath the bad-smelling sky \\{}
outside the big empty Mill \\{}
selling hamburgers to tourists \\{}
cleaning motel rooms \& front yards \\{}
after Unemployment runs dry.

But NOW, Folks of the Forest \\{}
now that YOU’re here \\{}
the words of the Lorax are perfectly clear. \\{}
Unless all the Folk \\{}
care a whole awful lot \\{}
nothing is going to get better. \\{}
It’s not.

THE WORDS OF THE LORAX ARE PERFECTLY CLEAR! \\{}
~~~I AM THE LORAX \\{}
~~~I SPEAK FOR THE TREES! \\{}
~~~TAKE DIRECT ACTION \\{}
~~~AGAINST CORPORATE GREED!
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The Lorax \& L-P



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Mendocino Environmental Center Newsletter (106 W. Standley St. Ukiah, CA 95482), Issue 19. <\href{http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/8221}{\texttt{http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/8221}}>
   

       

       
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