BOY’S TINKERTOYS

Man and his tinkertoys!
Skyscrapers, tall and strong!
Imaginations of bigger boys
Challenge problems of housing throng.

Megalopolis spread!
Eating up farm land
Brings to us a certain dread
That spread out cities get that land.

Can we go “up” instead of “out”,
To save farm land to furnish food?
It is the future we think about,
And pray “no food” does not intrude!

Fancy prices buy the farms,
Spreading cities day by day;
We welcome them with open arms,
Thinking not of what we’ll pay.

So, tinkertoys, keep our boys
Building dreams toward the sky,
While farmers of the land rejoice
In growing food in good supply.