Tuesday, October 7, 2014

5980. MANAGING

MANAGING
People have the shay, they walk the very same way,
pealing away like stacks of five dollar bills. Everyone
in one place, just looking for the lie. Fifteen acres of
cut-down trees, now just wilting on the ground. And
here again, everyone manages. The guy with the
yellow bulldozer, the big pick-up truck guy pulling
logs, the fellow and his crew, running the chipper.
Loud and boisterous, machine and man, managing.
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So sweet it seems when all that fine black dirt is seen
at first  -  after years of shade and leaves, a rich soil
is suddenly in sunlight harsh. And, in a year anyway,
it will all be gone  -  paved over and cluttered, or
flat and made into a lawn. The power of people
is the power of : Managing all these terms.

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