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City Tree.
















                                                                                                                                                                                              City tree,                                        You did not ask to be born, yet you are here. You didn’t want to be in the city,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                but you’re in the asphalt jungle, I guess this wasn’t the life you wanted.

                                                                                                                                                                                              yours is not                                      You dreamed of hosting animals, of being in the middle of the jungle, of gi-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ving life and breathing air, not pollen and exhaust gases.
                                                                                                                                                                                              an easy life                                      I understand you, city tree, I also wanted a life different from this one, but you

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                don’t always manage to take what you want. You have to settle for what you
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                have and make it work; you have to survive.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                And I will survive like you, city tree, two entities out of place, but who are
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                making a living because that’s the only thing they can do.











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