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The worms crawl in
The worms crawl out
The worms play pinochle
On your snout.

I was in the arboretum back home with my mom on Monday and coming back to the car I notice something was missing, in that odd way that you know that something isn't right but have no clue what.

After searching for a bit, I noticed one of the pear trees was cut down. My pear tree. The one with a plaque saying it was planted just a few days after my birthday, the one that I used to hug every time I went to the arboretum. I stared at the stump for a few seconds, then sat down on it and cried.

I know it was diseased and probably needed taking down before it infected anything else, but still...it was my tree. It just doesn't seem fair that the tree should die before I did.

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*hugs tight* Oh, Seiber, I'm sorry. That's so awful. :(

Yeah. They cut down my forest, for logging reasons, like, two years after we left BC. ALl those ferns and stuff, gone. It's never fair when trees die.

Ohhh, sad!

We used to have a giant hackberry tree just behind our garage . . . 121 feet tall, they said, having measured it after they cut it down. The insurance company complained about it, saying it was a big risk in storms and there was I think something about them refusing to cover our garage for storm damage because of it. So one day my mom came up to school and brought us home over lunch---to watch them take it down. They were already partially done, and I sat in the window and cried. Not only that, but it was way in the back of our yard, and to get at it they cut down another tree I liked, with a crotch that was perfect for sitting and reading in! It was already cut off at ground level and there was a truck parked over it!

I wrote a poem about it, but I don't think I have that anymore.

*hug* I'm sorry Seiber.

We used to have an apple tree in our yard that was smallish, but perfect for climbing in. It died and had to get cut down though. I miss it because I can remember my sisters and I playing near it when I was younger.

...I feel emo now.

*hugs more and gives E-cookies*

Can't remember losing any trees, but I remember being really pissed off one year when the electric company sprayed heavy herbicides under their wires and right through the berry patch on the hill where I used to live. We never had a good berry crop again as long as I was out there.

On another note, where did you hear that rhyme? It sounds a lot like one I was taught as a sort of nursery rhyme as a kid, only that one was like this:

The worms crawl in
the worms crawl out
In your stomach
and out your mouth

If you see
a herse go by
You will be
the next to die

They'll wrap you up
In a bloody white sheet
And bury you under
six foot deep

> It just doesn't seem fair that the tree should die before I did.

Bittersweet (http://newagelink.livejournal.com/122966.html), having emotions like these. I'd try to see it as a good experience, that 1) you have the opportunity to have a tree as a pet, and that 2) you have the capacity to feel for it. There are those that can do neither; on /b/ at 4chan I ran across a thread saying, "Post the picture that made you emotionless," and people posted photographs of mutilated cats and kittens.

That sucks.

There's a small forest behind my house that's being destroyed, little by little. Either by construction, or the local paintball-playing idiots. I hate it when trees are cut down.
-Hika

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