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      January 23, 2022Whose Woods These WereBruce Bennett

      “If we could reason with the crows
      it might not help us, but who knows?”
       
      Thus Sunnyvale’s embattled Mayor.
      They’ve tried all sorts of things, but there
       
      The crows still are, and will remain.
      So far, all efforts are in vain.
       
      The sidewalks will stay coated white.
      The skies will darken every night
       
      As countless crows fly home to roost.
      The citizens must just get used
       
      To living with an alien species.
      But it’s not just the noise and feces.
       
      It’s that crows ought to understand
      who owns and should control the land.
       
      What makes them think they have a stake
      in what they rudely seek to take
       
      That isn’t theirs? Why don’t they flock
      to garbage on some other block?
       
      What makes them think they own the bowers
      we’ve planted here, that should be ours!
       
      Let them beware. We will resort
      to stronger means. We’ll go to Court,
       
      Throw Nature out, with all her minions!
       
      Though they’ve a right to their opinions.

      from Poets Respond

      Bruce Bennett

      “This story about crows taking over Sunnyvale, California, caught my eye because I live near Auburn, New York, which has been facing this same problem for years. Auburn seems to have tried everything, including a crow hunt at one point, but nothing has worked. Although one doesn’t necessarily root for the crows, it’s not too much of a stretch to see the issue from the crows’—and perhaps Nature’s—point of view. Plus, it hasn’t been bad publicity for Auburn, and it does provide quite a spectacle!”

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