By Evelyn Elliott
I took their pictures, and I made me a card, so my friends out of town can laugh really hard.
I am an artist, so I think I know art, and those damn trees, aren’t playing that part.
They aren’t great trees, of spruce, fir, or pine, I have a plastic tree, and I love the one I call mine.
It really looks like it came straight from the wood, It didn’t cost much, and it looks very good.
The ugliness of those trees, there on Third Street, would be very hard, for someone to beat.
To honor those reindeer, Dasher, Donner and Dancer, this little old lady has the final great answer.
Let’s take our sharp tools, saws, machetes and axes, and get rid of those monstrosities, we paid with our taxes.
I hate to be negative, and I hate to be mean, but they really are, the ugliest things I have seen.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 22, 2006. Read the original PDF.