Looking for a Tract
LOOKING FOR A TRACT
Hard to find a good hill to die on
these days, a good tract of the real
on which to make your estate,
what with the rate of construction
so intent on leveling it all in the name
of affordable sub-developments.
In theory, you just want a place
to call your own, an old oak like a pin
making clear that You Are Here
and shading the spot where a headstone
will survey the clearing of your belief.
You want roots so deep you trail dirt
on your trips through town, a tenet
so immovable that when the bulldozers
come they'll have to mow you
down. And when you really get down
to it, it could be more than theory,
but in this current economy you’d need
to move pretty far out to afford
such conviction, likely even putting
some miles between you and your
welfare, maybe even family and friends,
which is where—for most of us—
the conversation stutters, concedes,
never really beginning, never utterly at end
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