Photopoetic Montage No.2
WALLSEND'S ST VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE
FEBRUARY 14TH 2001
DAY OF SHAME
Photography: Mr Michael Sternbeck
Words: Mr Gionni di Gravio
Thankyou for your commitment
to environmental heritage
So Slow to Create
So Quick to Destroy
Where is the sense of reducing the
living space
of such an Ancient Giant to a median strip?
Looks like chunks of meat, lean beef.
Imagine if this tree was a living beast.
From Wallsend Ancient to Woodchips
in 24 hours
Coming to a photocopier near you!
Dear Councils
Please give our trees adequate space around the roots
so water can reach them.
Would you like to be bitumened?
Employ staff who love trees and know how to look after them.
Choose love, passion and inspiration over qualifications.
With this act we have wiped away 120 years of history.
Someone in the future will hate us for this.
A Council is as it does.
Bringing us a Day of Shame.
Photopoetic Montage No.1- Lamentations to the Wallsend Ancients Upon the Eve of Their Passing.
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