Sonnet from a Supposed Neighboring Nabob of Negativism

Three Oaks, you've stooped to slander. Tell me why

You've spread the word that neighbors who oppose

Your Near North plans are NIMBYs. Why this lie

That bleakly casts us all as so-and-sos?

You know what's true and not. Can you not bear

The thought that truth proves barren to your plight?—

Your need to wash your dirty underwear

Of poor investments in your Near North site.

Had you applied to build this monstrous wart

Within your neighborhood, would you still call

Nay-saying neighbors NIMBYs? Still resort

To tactics "Robbing Peter to pay Paul"?

You claim you're trying to help by what you do.

But what you do do says, "This PUDs for You!"

Michael W. Brinkman 5/5/09