According to Buddha

To escape through wisdom from the oppressive narrowness of the self into the joyous omnipresence of the Self is the goal of human life. 

they paved paradise
and put up a parking lot
with a pink hotel, a boutique
and a swinging hot spot
don’t it always seem to go
that you don’t know what you’ve got
’till it’s gone
they paved paradise
and put up a parking lot

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behind Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta ~ October 2016