In Babel did the wise men decree
Gathering of towers around a tree,
Where water ran from the ground,
Where once wild life were found,
And ‘A’ Channel made no sound.
So hie you to the planners’ block,
This idea came as an awful shock
Towers rising at 25 stories above,
You can shop in a village of love.
Why not take your plan and shove….
(With apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Author of Kubla Khan.)