What we did to the L.A. River
She was a beauty
Who showered us with life
She was the reason
That we built on this land
She was a racing cougar
Prancing over falls
And, like the wind
She rushed with raging speed
She hurried toward the ocean
As quickly as a jaguar
But then a long rain came
And as she thrashed about
Her range was washed away
But us humans quarreled back
We tried to tame the river
For we were bears
And she had reached out
And stole our honey
And we would stop at nothing
To get our honey back
We were as fierce as a hungry lion
In getting our honey back
We raged like a hurricane
We bears attacked the river
We called the Army Corps of Engineers
And they poured cement in her!
But we didn’t care
We just wanted our honey
We didn’t care that the river
Was getting Xd
We wanted to build
Everywhere
Now we have to care
And restore the river
Before mother nature
Strikes us down like a hungry wolf
But nobody’s cared
Until now
We have to care
For the L.A. River
And stop all this death
These trash trees
Must be cleaned
And we must stop this
Meaningless end of the river.
- Dani Bork