Orange Juice & Ryvita

Food, politics, underemployment and the consumption of time and leisure

Category Poetry

  • Planning law

    ENGLISH LAW AND WORDS from France
    A duty to the public good
    Clients, public, applicants
    A split between what is, and should
    Golden threaded, lettered black
    Guide designers: lower, higher,
    Cold words of regulation track
    The limits to our built desire.
    Look your lot up, scroll the map.
    Read the rules, find what is meant.
    See like a cartographic State,
    Expect authority's consent.
    Common causes, common law
    Common sense of what it's for.
    Fill your form out, take your chance
    Honi soit qui mal y pense.

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