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.