subdivision

we've subdivided

the land into lots,
the seas into fisheries,
urban canyons into condos,
the skies into flight paths,
outer space into cyber-bits…

the division is endless,
in all directions.

we’ve reached deep into the atom
and divided that up too,
into quarks & bosons
& invisible particles that we smash to see

bound to divide,
we will chop & cut & build and sell it,
every square foot of earth.
we think we own it
with our carefully drawn lines
& deeds & domains.

as we run out of ground
we turn upward into sky
outward into space

like the first division of cell
we continue the endless partition

fast, unswerving, towards our paupers’ plots.