A SURVIVOR'S STORY

THINGS WERE GOING PRETTY BAD IN THE LOT YOU KNOW THAT ONE ON E. SMITH STREET AND THE BELTLINE ANYWAY WHAT HAD HAPPENED IS TWO MEN CAME AND LOOKED AT OUR GRASSY LOT AND SOME JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT OVERHEARD THEM AND TOLD US SITUATED UP ON THE NORTH SIDE THAT THEY WERE GOING TO DEMOLISH US TO PUT IN THIS PARKING THING AND WE PASSED WORD ALONG THE GRAPEVINE AND THE GRAPEVINE TOLD THE ROSES AND THE REST ON THE SOUTH SIDE AND MOST EVERYONE DECIDED TO GROW AWAY BUT THEN RANDY ROSE GAVE HIS FAMOUS SPEECH:

Friends, I have heard the distressing news, that many of you are planning to flee out to the boulevard. I beg you to please stay and take a stand. My comrade roses and I shall grow our thorns sharper than ever, and stop this human menace.

WELL AFTER THAT ALMOST EVERYONE STAYED AND RANDY ROSE DID GROW HIS THORNS PRETTY DARN SHARP BUT AS IT TURNS OUT THORNS ARE PRETTY INEFFECTIVE AGAINST BULLDOZERS BOY HE MUST HAVE FELT PRETTY STUPID WHEN THEY RAN HIM OVER OH WHAT THE HELL DO I KNOW I'M JUST A STUPID INDESTRUCTIBLE DANDELION.