You just voted to raise taxes on yourself to build a new sports complex. Because I guess the one...
Sports Complex on Jackson Ave. Extension
two...
Sports Complex on Jasper Neely Dr.
three...
Sports Complex at Grenada Lake (This one has tennis and basketball courts as well)
sports complexes in this town with a population of only 13,000 just aren't enough for you. So, go ahead! Play ball!
After the game, you can drive home
dodging the potholes in our crumbling infrastructure,
skirting the garbage piled at the end of your driveway, which may or may not get picked up on time -- or at all,
and bathe your kid in the brown water that comes out of your tap,
(Actual photo of city water, taken from a Facebook page)
so you can put him to bed, because he needs a good night's sleep before you get him up in the morning to send him to a below average school,
from which he will eventually graduate and spend the rest of his life working at a low paying factory job, whereupon he will have a heart attack at age 50,
and die in the waiting room of our underfunded and understaffed hospital, which was recently given the only failing grade of all the hospitals in the state.
As the breath leaves his body, and the light fades from his eyes, I'm sure his last thoughts will be, "Boy, I'm glad my parents voted for that fourth sports complex, instead of caring about the things that really mattered."
Because, you know, I'd hate to live in a town that only has three.
*Images courtesy of Google Earth.
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