Urban Listening
When you take a load off
furniture is where you put it.
Park it here, they always say
those otherwise silent
almost immobile 4-legged friends
who don’t move themselves
but can be moved
anyone under 300 pounds
is always welcome….one at a time…
well, mostly.
There’s much to be said
for nearly universal support
furniture is the first half of listening
a lost art now there are so many of us
and we all sense that listening
means down the road getting to know them
and we already know more folks than we can know.
When they unload we’re soon drowning
in details we don’t want to know
we’re afloat in strangeness
we can never own. We’re small towns
with a hundred thousand uninvited guests
who might have to learn to be cities.
Furniture is a start;
four-legged, silent, almost immobile
ready to spring back in the second half
with a brief dismissible demonstration
of multi-hybrid adaptable urban listening.
The Dog Star 
2 Responses to “Urban Listening”
Fascinating and wonderfully weird
Thanks bro! Weird I can do; wonderful shows up or doesn’t on its own.