Washington Square Park

A park has been making the news

Because people have differing views.

Those who live very near

Wish that all would adhere

To the rules and stop breaking taboos.

 

But a younger crowd’s recently found

They could party with no cops around

So they flock to this park,

Even more after dark,

Where their music and motors resound.

 

Since the park is a public-fed place

The old-timers would always embrace

People spending the day

In the usual way,

Not the mob that’s become a disgrace.

 

So it’s time for the city to act

When, at night, the park’s overly packed,

For the drugs and the noise

And the crowding annoys

Every neighbor who’s feeling attacked.

 

What to do when the young and the old

Find their values so often controlled

By the difference in years

Which, quite strangely, appears

To have neither side feeling consoled?