Big Yellow Taxi

Joni Mitchell sang, “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.”

‘Course, she was talking about Paradise and parking lots,

But, you know, I’m thinking she was talking something else,

Like family, and friends, and even me.  Yeah, maybe even me.

But that assumes one cares what comes and goes.

You said you don’t, but I didn’t believe you. 

I thought that you knew what you had.

I was wrong, but like Joni said, don't it always seem to go?

So this is me, climbing into my big yellow taxi,

Off to find a parking lot with a pink hotel

And a  boutique and a swinging hot spot

And maybe even Paradise where…  well, you know.

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This was written for One Shot Wednesday.