people are more important than cars.
rivers are more important than roads.
we've over-extended ourselves.
let's buy up every other house in the suburbs
and bulldoze them and plant trees.
why do we want to live so close together?
let's build a highway of forest
that connects every backyard to every other backyard
every childhood to every other childhood
across the earth.
why do we want to live so far apart?
where are the walkways in our parking lots?
we've engineered them only for cars
and so people can only be in the way.
this space is an interface, an in-between, a transformation
from one way of being to another.
it should afford both.
all that's left of the river
is a name on a sign on a guard rail on a bridge
and i can't go down and sit by it
because it's private property.
we've relegated the lifeblood of this planet
to the sewer.
slow down.
why do you hurry so quickly to the grave?
you