Drawing Lines

Sometimes people live too close to one another with the scent of lives overlapping lines psyches stepping on toes and problems bleeding in through doors & windows. Neighbors crying, remonstrating, manipulating, and copulating demonstrating the need for soundproofing or renovating as we wave the next day our smiles ingratiating because its at their expense our needs we’ve been satiating and the building goes on. Some stress “urban sprawl” others cry “urban blight.” Yet developers rub hands with piggish delight Smart animals follow the birds, which take flight and poor confused deer become targets at night. Yet the building goes on. Big boxes, small boxes, strip malls and stores, McDonalds, and Wendy’s, and Bed Bath and More Family Dollars and State Liquor Stores Pawn Shops and Nail Shops and and . . . when trees are memories fish bellies rise like steam from warm waters and desertification has become "the new black." Perhaps then we will draw a line in the sand.