Or like scarecrows, not thinking at all?

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Endangering homes you deemed “Landmark”

For another development, not the least bit small

A huge building right next door to our “culturally significant” homes

Will cause all sorts of problems galore.

Culver City, what goes on in your domes?

Why can’t you be like the tinman and realize you must have a heart?

For all the citizens, your constituents who from this city won’t depart.

Perhaps there is even toxic waste from the industry that used to be there.

As the digging begins will the sickness as well
­Will the kids in the schoolyard start losing their hair?

Why can’t you be like the lion overcoming his cowardly ways?

To face the facts and stand up to them, not leave the truth in a haze.

The Champion and the Entrada plans were bad enough in their scope

But one has been tabled and the other should be;

­Which has given our citizens hope.

What is happening Culver City?

Have we got such a budget crunch

That we’re selling property to developers who are out to eat our lunch?

Why not look behind the curtain?

Follow Dorothy and Toto’s lead

Look over our city’s accounts and budget to see if we really, truly need

To pay sky-high administrative salaries, dwarfing those of the service workers

Perhaps we need to look again, to make certain that they are not shirkers

Because our police and firemen, who put their lives on the line

Deserve our thanks with salaries to match what they do for us all the time

To many, we are the Emerald City, where good witches and wizards should abide

What happened to our sense of history?

What replaced our sense of pride?

Sometimes it appears, Culver City, that the wicked witch is taking over the town

­Look into your hearts, have courage and think
Culver City, please don’t let us down!
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Ms. Hoult, who lives in Carlson Park with her husband Charlie, may be contacted at HOULTight@aol.com
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