On the campus district Up the street from the theater district Down the road from University Circle

There are fewer surprises This good and bad news Their nature A zany neighbor plugs in each sit-com There are good reasons for this We would fit well into many places Who we are is more about where we are A restaurant under management from below We are as happy as the bottom of the food chain The explanations shorter while the lines grow longer A surprising pattern emerges when we write with specific goals

The people who want easy answers Reject the only thing that has ever given them Gathering dust upon the shelf Love hate relationships with reality never work Even Schrödinger's cat plays by rules Operational security Diversity is what saved the dinosaurs Equity equals sign of the equation Inclusion is just showing up 

I can smell Canada burning across a great lake Two days this climate needs new vocabulary Ten thousand years will make you go soft

For most people it is their heart that will break This is not a design flaw What billions of years created Forty years the goal The heart has its own mind like A climate that needs new vocabulary

The best count of us is now more than 8 billion This is one of the numbers we surely get wrong There are some very difficult numbers What defines an environmental collapse Where does ecology need to degrade to When will people do better The heart is usually what breaks This organ is made to make  There is the forever in the plan What we are building is infinity Where else would you place the foundation When we miss we create chaos At what point is it of concern Seems we saved the right whales for climate to kill Their name tells you everything about them The whalers called them right whales They were the easy money they wanted All those types out swimming in the sea Their type a whole population I swim the cold Atlantic Whole populations I fall for Right people float in place Easy

 I never get through July