Mar 13, 2010
Verse in Opinion I
More verse in opinions please:
We thought that we would never see
A suit to compensate a tree.
A suit whose claim in tort is prest
Upon a mangled tree’s behest;
A tree whose battered trunk was prest
Against a Chevy’s crumpled crest;
A tree that faces each new day
With bark and limb in disarray;
A tree that may forever bear
A lasting need for tender care.
Flora lovers though we three,
We must uphold the court’s decree.
Fisher v. Lowe, 333 NW 2d 67 (1983).
—Update—
This is apparently a parody of Joyce Kilmer’s poem, “Trees.”
