Build the Wall, Build the Fence, To keep them out.
Spend bags of money, To spread dirt, Limit access,
Put up signs. For specks of grass.
Where is it? In the middle? Where the airplanes land?
Chilmark, Tisbury, Aquinnah, Menemsha, Edgartown,
Calling you, To see what we do, To our Oak Bluffs green fields, Our most precious land. And ask The Land Bank
Why? Why do such an off-Island thing
To such a cherished Vineyard place?

Genevieve H. Abbot
Oak Bluffs