To the editor:

As a part-time resident of Alexandria, the power plant is a major part of my life because I live at Marina Towers and work on the other side of it at 1055 N. Fairfax St. During a walk along the Mount Vernon Trail, the muse struck me, and this song is the result. 

It commemorates the announcement that the Mirant power plant (renamed Gen-On) on the shore of the Potomac River in Alexandria, Virginia will close on October 1, 2012 after years of vain attempts to close this plant, an antiquated, pollution producer.
 
Good-bye Mirant 
(Sung to the tune of High Hopes)
 
Once there was a smoky old plant
 
Tried to change its name from Mirant.
 
Everyone knows a plant
 
Cant
 
Change its name from Mirant
 
Cause its got high smoke
 
In your eye smoke
 
Coal-burned smell stinks like hell
 
Choke and die smoke.
 
 
So if youre breathing slow
 
Stead of feeling low
 
Just remember that plant and
 
Oops there goes an old and smoky plant
 
Oops there goes and old and choky plant.
 
Say good-bye to all our friends at Mirant!