For Geed All Nature Is Too Little

first the city ate an adjacent town then put out a suburb like a great paw belched a factory devoured a well known beauty spot that was soon forgotten as such ate a field and ate another field the city's hunger fed by greed sent out pylons striding across countryside like giant alien beings vomiting asphalt so that green was if it had never been its scenic magnificence now only available in an out of print 1930's guide book even its memory dying now with old Joe Hart who managed to make it past the hundred mark the town he was born in no longer to be seen except in sepia or Kodachrome a picture postcard (3 for 2) in the bright new museum. *** The title is supplied by one Seneca the Younger (c.4 BC - AD 65) that well known and renowned Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist.