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O what has become of the Truffula trees<\/div>\n
that swayed in the cool summer breeze?<\/div>\n
The Lorax has fled, the Once-ler is dead,<\/div>\n
because of a deadly disease.<\/div>\n
In the Grickle grass there lay the Brown Bar-ba-loots,<\/div>\n
not a sound of their hoots, they were dead-ass galoots.<\/div>\n
Because of new laws, they’d no Truffula fruits,<\/div>\n
and now decomposed in their furry red boots.<\/div>\n
No Humming-Fish hummed in the scummed-over pond.<\/div>\n
No spell would revive them, no magical wand.<\/div>\n
Some said all would change if the Lorax came back.<\/div>\n
But that dude is hiding, he can’t save you, Jack.<\/div>\n
The trees have been felled and the birds are no more.<\/div>\n
Not even the poor Swomee-Swans know the score.<\/div>\n
If only they’d listened and stayed more inside,<\/div>\n
with great social distance, they might not have died.<\/div>\n
The Lorax had warned us. He spoke for the trees.<\/div>\n
And now we are all mostly dead\u00a0from disease.<\/div>\n
So, kids, mind your parents and stay out of school.<\/div>\n
It’s better to still be alive and a fool.<\/div>\n
When earth has subsumed all your technologies,<\/div>\n
may the cool summer breeze rustle Truffula trees.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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