I am responsible
and responsive
to every human built shelter
I have experienced as home,
mine to use,
to buy further improvements or sell,
to renovate or destroy.
I am responsible
and vulnerably responsive
to every lot of unimproved real estate,
every plot against healthy soil
and supporting water systems
and plants
and living creatures
who once called this place, home,
this space, habitat
to cooperatively use
to regenerate healthy wealth
and to degenerate diseased corruption.
I am accountable
when cooperative responsibilities
become transparent
from now
back toward Earth's uncivilized
precivilized
uncompromised civility,
Wildness,
wilderness,
contemplative silence,
celebrating cacophony,
Polyphonic
polypathic
chaotically complex
beautifully true,
magnificently not mine.
Reconciliation to proper relation
familial order is the ideal,
true relation,true state of a nation
true nature,true self is what you feel
Learned behavior's bitter flavor
for some become discordant endeavor
recognition of volition,
cognizant first of personal rendition
Common goal,the uncommon stole
messy unimproved process,
the ideal is real as we constantly deal,with
simple unknowing,which is simple ignorance......
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