commissioners sprawl about the table
misters bonefish, toadley, macflie, spongeson, and mahlisck
overwhelming putrid farting with donated cigar smoke
dulling single minds with gifted liquor
playing pocketpool with rolls of dough
sharing needles of noxious high
too many kings in the strange deck
they gamble away
children asleep by a coalbin outside
dream of greenfields and bent fishingpoles
leeward
to peas beans melons cantaloupes asparagus crabs oysters
orchards picnics
sick sailors immigrants dying contagious with mary
suburban mirage manguano cannery company town
baseball beer dancing burlesque
manufactury refinery petrolasphaltchemicalpool rails
gastank smokestack waste
liberty victory jumboizing containerizing
community clutching sandymuddyoiled rubbishroad
to fairfieldbrownfield
and beyond
to pleasant prospect adventure utopia
sweating river
carotid arteries reaching
into mind
onto face
move with moon
feed sun oxygen iron metalion
wash waste
oceanland
waterrock
planktonfungi
towncounty
harborfarm
portindustry
urbanrural
tidal rivers into cityorganic
through talltufted reeds
winds piping away
smiling grace and beauty heads not bent
shoved and clubbed
promenading tall in spring streets not green
grabbed and herded
swinging winds into dresses not billowed
corralled and branded
festival of fields and earth
sunlove unpaid
enforced
great change in the physical aspect of baltimore
isolation
was brought about by the removal of the buildings along saint paul
limit
cleared into a series of sunken gardens
infection
elaborate stairways
into lonely places
just
laws made
taxes paid
more humane
more effective
wages salaries earned
votes cast
more informed
more moral
public served
children raised
influence made
knowledge gained
corruption reduced
influence weighed
work respected
viciousness wounded
because
trade laws enrich rich
commercial conspiracies menace from a twilight zone in nation-state
unreasonable campaign contributions corrupt
overissues of stocks and bonds suppress legitimate investment
favored banks exploit
wage earners rights regarded as restraints
special privilege interests absorb and waste natural resources
impure foods compromise health
imperialism experiments abandon values
special interests misuse delegated power usurp government
begin to begin to begin again
ships entering harbor
like wet wooden wedges
split air and stone
blood in a growing infant
bones stretch and seep into presence
encoded dust settles out
as beautiful coils
in grottos under lapping water
by a shore
packs of dogs sleep
in dry bushes and rusting metal
responsibility
scrutiny
municipality
professionalism
highest bidded infrastructure use
unhasty legislation
limited floating debt
protected public schools
well-supervised assistance.
rising expenditure inelastic revenue
fictitious valuations
discounting the future
expensive mediocrity
wastefulness inefficiency
services rendered incommensurate with available resources
bogey of threatened removal
an emporium of falls bluestone arch brick beaver dam marble
spacious halls refined thriftily
a superscaled pearl
pulled from a ton of modernity
