The future was a beautiful place, once.
\nRemember the full-blown balsa-wood town
\non public display in the Civic Hall.
\nThe ring-bound sketches, artists\u2019 impressions,
\nblueprints of smoked glass and tubular steel,
\nboard-game suburbs, modes of transportation
\nlike fairground rides or executive toys.
\nCities like dreams, cantilevered by light.
\nAnd people like us at the bottle-bank
\nnext to the cycle-path, or dog-walking
\nover tended strips of fuzzy-felt grass,
\nor motoring home in electric cars,
\nmodel drivers. Or after the late show \u2013
\nstrolling the boulevard. They were the plans,
\nall underwritten in the neat left-hand
\nof architects \u2013 a true, legible script.
\nI pulled that future out of the north wind
\nat the landfill site, stamped with today\u2019s date,
\nriding the air with other such futures,
\nall unlived in and now fully extinct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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