make life iller

i find the city to be far less attractive than the un-tainted earth.
take a plant from the other side of the world, stick it in a pot,
and cut off some of it's branches,
how could that possibly be more attractive than the tree
right outside your window?

life is better with an exposed heart. i thought about it and it's true.
turns out i don't expose my heart to that to which i am not attracted.

who came up with these styles?
this one, a copy of a 500 year old english home - why?
why should i care about your interesting stairway architecture?
how can that look better here than something OF this land?
could i expose my heart to something this unnattractive?

2,000 miles away people play a game
you sit on a couch and watch them on a screen,
is that what humans were meant for?
i suppose i value the animal more than the intellectual.
all this buzzing around - why?

i can't call them all fools -
they must be going towards what (they think) they want.
surely they can't all want THIS, can they?
maybe they don't stop to think.
shouldn't they separate themselves from this ill-directed inertia?

though it's unattractive and i don't want to expose my heart to it
i walk down from the hill to blend
with a father and son discussing the why's of this world together
and weave confidently through the flow of traffic
on upper solano

grateful for what i want.
wearing a sign over my head which says, "i know who i am"