If I may presume to summarize the concept, "Eminent Domain," The Big P People own the Right of Way And the little p people Have temporary possession of the opportunity To get out of the Way, Or to be smashed under the wheels Of Big P Progress.
Appropriate compensation will be paid, Of Course, And living spaces provided To the little p people, While the Big P People thunder by on their new highways, Overpasses, airports, causeways, and thoroughfares.
Reclamation will be done over the torn earth To re-bury the unearthed little p people's dead, To restore damaged aquifers, To "replace" trees and grasses "just as before," Never mind the pipelines, The concrete roadways, The railroads, And the power lines....
Eminent Domain... Rhymes with Capitalist Gain, And little p people's pain....