A tree grows in New Building
that interferes with our playing
now, we’ve done everything there’s to do
tried everything there’s to try
and yet, the bugger perseveres!

It’s not even a tree, you know
it’s this wild thing
that grows, and grows!

We’ve dug out it’s roots
chopped it’s limbs
cut it’s trunk-
wound metal wires around it
why, even driven nails into it’s head!
And what do we have to show?
Cuts, bruises, rashes galore!

Not that it’s over-
far from over
we still have acid to go.

And yet, deeply,
almost against our collective will
we’ve come to admire the tree’s will
to live, to persist
I for one-
would want to be
like that tree some day.