The environmental band

On a gray, drizzly Sunday afternoon, there’s a band in the park playing the worst Counting Crows cover I’ve ever heard out of the back of a UHAUL box truck. They’re all crowded inside the truck, so you can’t really see them play. You can hear them quite well, unfortunately. There’s four people standing in front watching. There’s a sign taped on the side of the truck, something about the environment. Instead of “we will rock you,” they sang “superstorms and wildfires will shock you.” Instead of “I’ll stop the world and melt with you” they sang “we’ve melted the world with fossil fuels.” They played “paved paradise and put up a parking lot” as is, just incredibly out of tune. It’s starting to rain. Besides the four people, everyone else is hurrying away.