<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452496" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The City Planners</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cruising these residential Sunday<br>streets in dry August sunlight:<br>what offends us is<br>the sanities:<br>the houses in pedantic rows, the planted<br>sanitary trees, assert<br>levelness of surface like a rebuke<br>to the dent in our car door.<br>No shouting here, or<br>shatter of glass; nothing more abrupt<br>than the rational whine of a power mower<br>cutting a straight swath in the discouraged grass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But though the driveways neatly<br>sidestep hysteria<br>by being even, the roofs all display<br>the same slant of avoidance to the hot sky,<br>certain things:<br>the smell of spilled oil a faint<br>sickness lingering in the garages,<br>a splash of paint on brick surprising as a bruise,<br>a plastic hose poised in a vicious<br>coil; even the too-fixed stare of the wide windows</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>give momentary access to<br>the landscape behind or under<br>the future cracks in the plaster</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>when the houses, capsized, will slide<br>obliquely into the clay seas, gradual as glaciers<br>that right now nobody notices.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>That is where the City Planners<br>with the insane faces of political conspirators<br>are scattered over unsurveyed<br>territories, concealed from each other,<br>each in his own private blizzard;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>guessing directions, they sketch<br>transitory lines rigid as wooden borders<br>on a wall in the white vanishing air</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>tracing the panic of suburb<br>order in a bland madness of snows</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Atwood">Margaret Atwood</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452496" data-title="The City Planners de Margaret Atwood" data-description="Cruising these residential Sunday streets in dry August sunlight: what offends us is the sanities: the houses in pedantic rows, the planted sanitary trees, assert levelness of surface like a rebuke to the dent in our car door. No shouting here, or..."></div> </div> </div>

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