we transport
from land to land
by moving
with auto-matic impact
the dice are loaded for the car
in the city we’ve been building for 100 years
awake or not
in a perfect world we’d plan
simultaneously
staging practical problems
coincidentally
to shift the dream from
white picket fences
with exemplars built from opportunity
trusting in learning and adapting
striving for alternative
futures, knowing risks
of doing nothing
the style of life we choose is up to us
by design
(harvest from Eric Miller’s presentation September 28, 2009 with the City-Region Studies Centre, University of Alberta)