7/22/94- ---

                                            7/22/94
                             Airborne over Pori, Finland
 
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 Amid the forests and fields
 That look as if a fork had been lazily dragged
 Across wet green clay
 The unexpected grid takes me by surprise
 This is no place for cookie cutter communities
 My mind stopped to think
 And then a smile
 9 houses, 1 block
 6 lined up like bored ducks in a row
 3 turned 45 degrees as if the lawn cared
 That it was rectangular or not...
 
 When I fear that conformity pervades
 I get the message;
 Wait long enough and man
 will step
 out of line.