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Rummage through the dirt 

Collect what you can 

Run your fingers through a steel tumbler of water

Wash them clean 

Let your city breathe 

Try to get out of everybody’s way 

Stare blankly out closed windows 

Make plans 

Take pictures

We’re relieved that our friends are not together anymore 

We love them too much to want them to stay

But this is hard for them 

Rethink your work spaces 

Your closest circles 

Start again 

Forget the exits

Ask again 

Even though you’ve been here before

We’re missing what we’re seeing altogether 

Our minds are not here every second 

We lose count of the times we drift

Watching the world pass us by 

slowly 

How is there still water to wash ourselves 

In this dusty city 

Pollution is discriminatory to my blind eyes

We don’t know how to respectfully receive 

abundance 

We don’t know how to progress towards goals 

despite our circumstances

There is potential for prosperity

But we can’t decide between what helps us and hurts us 

The whole world is your wasteland and oyster and your meal kit 

Requests for observational visits

are falling through 

We have designs in mind 

But we need case studies

We need references

Someone let us in 

All we need 

is to design a new space 

with reference to an existing one 

and answer an advocacy call to save  

displayed on public transportation:

save girl child

save water